大象传媒

Ten years ago this week, Daniel Gluesenkamp was driving across the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco when he spotted a plant he hadn鈥檛 seen before. Upon further investigation it was confirmed to be a native plant - the Manzanita or Little Apple - thought to be extinct since the end of the Second World War. Daniel told Newsday about his decade-long battle to bring the plant back from the point of extinction:

(Pic: Manzanita plant; Credit: Michael Chasse)