New assessment method finds close to one-third of tropical Africa’s plants are potentially facing extinction

Mongabay
Nov 20, 2019, 4:16 pm992 ptsInteresting
New research finds that nearly one-third — 31.7 percent — of tropical Africa’s vascular plant species might be at risk of going extinct. The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species is the go-to resource for conservation status assessments, but while the…

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