Category: Endangered Plants
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Our Hunger For Rubber Tires Is Exterminating Wildlife
The tyre industry consumes 70% of all natural rubber grown, and rising demand for vehicle and aeroplane tyres is behind the recent expansion of plantations. But the impact of this is a loss of tropical biodiversity
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Everyone’s A Winner: Wine By-Product Could Replace Palm Oil
Researchers have been able to turn a type of oily yeast used in wine production into a palm oil alternative.
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Can Conservation Reinvent Itself To Save Hawaii’s Doomed Lowland Rain Forests ?
Our project is motivated by our past work in lowland Hawaiian rainforests, which are in need of restoration, as they experience low amounts of native species regeneration and exist only in remnant patches filled with highly invasive plant species. It’s a case of ‘dead men standing’: when the existing adults die, this forest will become wholly made up of exotic and invasive species.
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Everglades Endemic Plants Are Disappearing
I don’t think we should have to lobby to get plants noticed as well as animals, Funding for rare plants is a drop in the bucket compared to funding for python control.
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The Tenuous Life Of An Unknown Yet Endangered Plant
Saving the wild plants will pose more of a challenge. In their paper the researchers noted that it would only take a single landslide, hurricane or flash flood to wipe out every remaining plant.
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Wild Harvesting Of Botanical Medicines Declared Unsustainable
“We will also recommend that companies be encouraged to take up cultivation of these species, instead of using them from the wild,”
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Why Is This Orchid So Rare?
He says there are less than 100 majestic spider orchids known in the wild and although the main threats to the species survival include grazing by feral pigs and kangaroos, fire and dieback, the precise cause of its rarity is unknown.
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Theft Of Sexy Nuts Threaten Rare Palms
Under cover of darkness in the steamy jungles of the Seychelles thieves creep out to harvest the sizeable and valuable nuts of the famous coco de mer palm, and their activities are threatening its long-term survival.
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The 9 Rarest Plants In The World
Here are nine of the most threatened plants today. They are almost all classed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). These plants occupy some of the most inaccessible, remote parts of our planet. They are threatened by habitat destruction, illegal collection, poaching, and competition with invading species.
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Plant Thieves Know No Limits: Ravaging Parkland For Profit
It’s a crime against wildlife but also a crime against everyone who enjoys nature in the wild.