Nearly Half of Plants May Face Extinction
From Times Wire Reports
The percentage of the world’s plants threatened with extinction is much larger than commonly believed, and could be as high as 47% if tropical species are included, researchers reported in Friday’s Science.
The study challenges research that estimated the number of species in danger of extinction was about 13%. Previous studies of endangered plants underestimated the numbers because they failed to include many plants growing in tropical countries such as Ecuador and Colombia.
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