TIME is running out if we are going to prevent climate change leading to a mass extinction of plants, an international group of botanists warned this week.
The Gran Canaria Group, whose members include major biodiversity conservation organisations and botanical gardens, says 1 in 4 of Earth’s 40,000 plant species are already on the brink. Environments are changing faster than plants can migrate, and this could cause half of Europe’s plant species to be lost in the next 80 years. A worldwide action plan is urgently needed to avert an “impending crisis”, the group says.
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