Article 58N8F 40% of world’s plant species at risk of extinction

40% of world’s plant species at risk of extinction

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Damian Carrington Environment editor
from Environment | The Guardian on (#58N8F)

Race against time to save plants and fungi that underpin life on Earth, global data shows

Two in five of the world's plant species are at risk of extinction as a result of the destruction of the natural world, according to an international report.

Plants and fungi underpin life on Earth, but the scientists said they were now in a race against time to find and identify species before they were lost.

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