'Unfathomable destruction': thousands of rare wildflowers wiped out in Nevada
by Rasha Aridi from Environment | The Guardian on (#588K9)
About 40% of the Tiehm's buckwheat population destroyed, amid fierce dispute over proposed lithium and boron mine nearby
Nestled among the slopes of Nevada's Silver Peak Range are six patches of Tiehm's buckwheat, a rare flowering plant found nowhere else in the world. Only an estimated 42,000 plants remain on 10 acres. But over the weekend, conservationists discovered that 40% of the total population had been destroyed.
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