Donovan Kirkwood, protector of South Africa’s rarest plants, dies at 51 in search for one of the world’s most endangered species

Mongabay
Aug 29, 2025, 11:22 am127 ptsTrending
In late August, high in South Africa’s Jonkershoek mountains, a small group of botanists picked their way across steep ground in search of one of the world’s rarest plants. They were surveying Penaea formosa, a critically endangered shrub thought to number fewer than 50 individuals. Donovan Kirkwood,…

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