A. alatum has reappeared on the server again after a new assessment was uploaded, this time for the correct species, although now the old assessments for A. confertum have reappeared again, again under the wrong name. The species was now assessed as "near threatened". The author mostly only looked at Costa Rica, where the species is common, but he noted that it might be possible that the species could be said to maybe become rarer if in the future pineapples could be grown in the National Parks in the swamps along the Caribbean coast, and if the reader ignores the map provided by the webpage and pretends A. alatum only grows on a few square kilometres. Protected areas It is probably found in almost all national parks and protected areas within its range. It is very abundant at Tortuguero National Park, where it forms vast palm brakes in the swamps. It is also among the most common trees in Barbilla National Park. It is known to occur in Nicaragua in the Indio Maíz Biological Reserve and Bosawás Biosphere Reserve; in Costa Rica in the Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge, Barra del Colorado Wildlife Refuge, La Selva Biological Station, Braulio Carrillo National Park, Jairo Mora Sandoval Gandoca-Manzanillo Mixed Wildlife Refuge, Carara National Park, La Tirimbina Wildlife Refuge, Golfo Dulce Forest Reserve and Corcovado National Park; and in Panama in the Soberanía National Park, Río Chagres National Park, as well as many more. In Costa Rica, the majority of the most important habitat (wetlands) is protected in the Nation Park system. Outside of this system different types of wetlands are being impacted by agriculture, primarily clearance and drainage for rice and sugarcane cultivation along the Tempisque River near the Pacific coast, although it is not entirely clear the brackish flooded areas which this palm preferentially inhabits are the types of swamps which are being drained. Footnotes References alatum Flora of Costa Rica Flora of Honduras Flora of Nicaragua Flora of Panama Near threatened plants Taxonomy articles created by Polbot