Humanity could lose up to half of future medicines through plant extinctions
Scientists at Kew Gardens want all newly described species to be classed as threatened unless proven otherwise.
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Scientists at Kew Gardens want all newly described species to be classed as threatened unless proven otherwise.
Scientists at Kew Gardens want all newly described species to be classed as threatened unless proven otherwise.
Scientists at Kew Gardens want all newly described species to be classed as threatened unless proven otherwise.
Scientists at Kew Gardens want all newly described species to be classed as threatened unless proven otherwise.
Societal Impact Statement: Plants are fundamental to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and are key to human livelihoods. To protect plant diversity, systematic approaches to conservation assessment are needed. Many nations have legislation or other policy instruments that seek to protect biodiversity (including plants), and species-level assessments are essential for identifying the most threatened species that require special and immediate protection measures. Some plants occur in only one place (for instance, a single country) and here we have estimated how many of these ‘endemic’ speci...