The St Helena Olive tree (Nesiota elliptica) went extinct in 2003 Rebecca Cairns-Wicks
Forty per cent of Earth’s plants are at risk of extinction, twice as many as previously thought, while many fungi are also under threat.
“We are living in an age of extinction,” says Alexandre Antonelli at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London. Kew’s on the state of the world’s plants has found that the number one threat to plants is farming.
The jump from to 40 per cent now is not because of…
