A Third of Tropical Africa’s Plants At Risk of Extinction

Yale e360
Nov 27, 2019, 9:00 am229 pts
One-third of — or more 7,000 — plant species in tropical Africa could be at risk of extinction due to climate change and human activities like logging, deforestation from agriculture, and mining, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances. Another third are likely rare, meaning they…

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