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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Gabriela on October 12, 2016, 01:27:40 AM

Title: State of the World's Plants - RBG Kew report
Post by: Gabriela on October 12, 2016, 01:27:40 AM

I didn't get through all of it yet; maybe someone else is interested in browsing this report:
https://stateoftheworldsplants.com/ (https://stateoftheworldsplants.com/)

Title: Re: State of the World's Plants - RBG Kew report
Post by: Tim Ingram on October 12, 2016, 11:25:58 AM

Thanks Gabriela. I saw similar reference by the RSPB on Facebook but haven't yet looked at this in more detail. (A general concern for the environment runs through everything we do in the garden anyway, especially after reading books like 'Silent Spring' and Anthony Huxley's 'Plant and Planet').

Title: Re: State of the World's Plants - RBG Kew report
Post by: Maggi Young on October 12, 2016, 09:39:24 PM

Kew scientist Noeleen Smyth highlights the latest discussions regarding the international trade of wild plants.

http://www.kew.org/discover/blogs/kew-science/cites-cop17-plants-recent-decisions-global-trade (http://www.kew.org/discover/blogs/kew-science/cites-cop17-plants-recent-decisions-global-trade)

Title: Re: State of the World's Plants - RBG Kew report
Post by: ian mcdonald on October 13, 2016, 12:12:06 PM

I wonder about tree ferns from New Zealand. How many are actually "saved" from human "development" and sold on? Why not re-route the development and save tree ferns in-situ?

Title: Re: State of the World's Plants - RBG Kew report
Post by: Gabriela on October 13, 2016, 05:35:08 PM

I would not start another discussion about conservation here. To note that the report starts with what’s important first – ‘Describing the world’s plants’ and ‘New plant discoveries’…The talk about the conservation comes afterwards.

Reading through it brought to my mind the term ‘plant blindness’ coined by Wandersee & Schussler, which is ‘visible’ at any level of society (at least the North American).
Not even the newly giant 1,5 m Drosera magnifica!!! made the headlines ( maybe it did on FB), while every ‘little’ new animal species newly discovered gets posted everywhere.