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Susanne Masters

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Dorset County, UK
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Susanne Masters’s Biography

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Travel writer focusing on active travel: cycling, hiking, paddling, swimming and walkable cities. Also writes about gardens and nature at home and abroad. Drinks industry expertise. Commercial copywriting for brands using botanicals.
Author of Wild Waters https://www.adventurebooks.com/products/wild_waters

Upcoming books on juniper, and flowers.

Susanne Masters’s Journalist Portfolio

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Río Pastaza Watershed, Ecuador

Río Pastaza Watershed, Ecuador

An adventure travel hotspot and also home to unique wildlife.

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A moment of calm

A moment of calm

New Year is often a catalyst for new direction, and spa gardens offer inspiration for nurturing wellbeing at …

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Ashford Castle, Hotel Review

Ashford Castle, Hotel Review

A luxury hotel with a medieval castle at its heart, staying here lets you be part of the story.

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Aquatic foraging

Aquatic foraging

Collector's edition of Elsewhere, gathering stories, photographs and reflections from two decades of swimming…

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Texture

Texture

Botanical ingredients can enhance texture, add tannins, and thicken thin spirits. Here's what to know.

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Shell stories

Shell stories

Margate's shell grotto....

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Edible orchids are being overharvested in the Mediterranean — how to protect these astonishing blooms

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By Susanne Masters Verified, Margret Veltman
| Down To Earth Verified
Each spring, the meadows and hillsides of the Mediterranean draw tourists to admire flowering orchids. But in some regions, these astonishing blooms are steadily declining — or at risk of disappearing altogether. Collection for trade is depleting these wild orchids. It’s not their flowers but their tubers that have most value. Tubers are underground storage organs that sustain plant growth and development. Harvesting them effectively kills the plant.
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Edible orchids are being overharvested in the Mediterranean—how to protect these astonishing blooms

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By Susanne Masters Verified, Margret Veltman, Lisa Lock
| Phys.org Verified
Anatolian Orchid. Credit: Dror Feitelson via the PikiWiki—Israel free image collection project/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY Each spring, the meadows and hillsides of the Mediterranean draw tourists to admire flowering orchids. But in some regions, these astonishing blooms are steadily declining—or at risk of disappearing altogether. Collection for trade is depleting these wild orchids. It's not their flowers but their tubers that have most value.
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Molecular evidence reveals unsustainable harvest of wild orchids

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By Margaretha Veltman, Bastien Anthoons, Audun Schrøder-Nielsen, Arzu Karahan, Esra Öztürk, Sedef Terzioglu, Susanne Masters Verified, Mark Nesbitt, Michael Fay, Alexandre Antonelli, Barbara Gravendeel, Hugo de Boer, Abdolbaset Ghorbani, Selay Akan-Küçükaladağ
| Cell Press Verified
Results An inventory of tuberous orchid species native to our study area (defined as Greece, Türkiye, and Iran) yielded 82 candidate species belonging to ten genera that could be potential targets for salep harvest.36 We supplemented existing reference sequences for the loci captured by the custom-bait kit that we generated35 (Orchidinae-205) of 73 taxa—some of them represented by multiple samples—with seven additional species to construct a near-complete reference database of 205 loci (>300...
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