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Jul 12, 2023 · According to the current best estimate, almost 600 plants have gone extinct globally in the past 250 years — a rate about 500 times greater than the “baseline” rate at which plants would disappear without human influence.
Since the 1750s, at least 571 species of plants have gone extinct in the wild, according to a global survey recently published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. More than eight plant species...
Jun 10, 2019 · Release date: 10 June 2019. New study from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Stockholm University looks at the plants that have been wiped from the planet in the last 250 years.
Nov 26, 2019 · Tropical forests with high biodiversity are being razed around the world and plants are going extinct every hour. In fact, one in five plant species in the world is estimated to be threatened with extinction. “None of us has the authority or the right to destroy the forests at this scale,” he says. “Who owns the oxygen we breathe?
Jun 10, 2019 · NEWS. 10 June 2019. World’s largest plant survey reveals alarming extinction rate. Since 1900, nearly 3 species of seed-bearing plants have disappeared per year ― 500 times faster than they...
Jun 10, 2019 · 10 June 2019. By Helen Briggs,BBC News. Getty Images. Deforestation in Sumatra. Almost 600 plant species have been lost from the wild in the last 250 years, according to a comprehensive study....
Jun 10, 2019 · Most of us can name an extinct animal like the dodo, but few can name an extinct plant. Scientists at Kew and Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BCGI) have analysed global risk assessments of c.90,000 plant species and found up to a third of these could be considered threatened.
