LONDON - Over one-fifth of the world’s plant species are threatened with extinction according to a new study compiled by the UK’s Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London.
The “Sampled Red List Index for Plants” is the first time the true extent of the threat to more than 380,000 plant species worldwide has been identified, according to researchers.
The study, published Wednesday, took five years to complete and used the Royal Botanic Gardens and London’s Natural History Museum archives (which hold around 13 million specimens combined) along with data from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)./.../
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