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New assessment method finds close to one-third of tropical Africa’s plants are potentially facing extinction

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2019

Lawsuit against Indonesian coal plant reveals permit irregularities

Ahmad Supardi 1 Nov 2019

Biodiversity ‘not just an environmental issue’: Q&A with IPBES ex-chair Robert Watson

Mongabay.com 17 Oct 2019

Study tracks first incursion of poachers into ‘pristine’ African forest

John Cannon 3 Oct 2019

Wilderness cuts the risk of extinction for species in half

John Cannon 26 Sep 2019

Climate change threatens some island conifers with extinction

Nanditha Chandraprakash 19 Sep 2019

‘Radically changing’ a rare Mauritian plant’s story: Q&A with ecologist Prishnee Bissessur

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Sep 2019

Wild orchid trade in China is huge, overlooked and ‘devastating,’ study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Aug 2019

Mysterious plants that thrive in darkness, steal food: Q&A with botanist Kenji Suetsugu

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Aug 2019

New orchid species from Japan lives on dark forest floor, never blooms

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2019

New toolkit identifies multiple species from environmental DNA

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 3 Aug 2019

Venezuelan crisis: Caring for priceless botanical treasures in a failed state

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 31 Jul 2019

Two ferns presumed extinct found on remote Australian mountaintops

Mongabay.com 26 Jul 2019
Intact rainforest in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Building a global inventory of plants: Q&A with botanist Patrick Weigelt

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Jul 2019

Making room for wild foods in forest conservation

Sarah Sax 22 Jul 2019

From over 100,000 species assessments in IUCN update, zero improvements

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Jul 2019

Newly described tree species from Tanzania is likely endangered

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2019

More than 10,000 animals and plants seized in massive global operation

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2019

Are plants conscious? The debate rages on

Malavika Vyawahare 9 Jul 2019

Nearly 600 plant species have gone extinct in last 250 years

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2019

‘You don’t find orchids; they find you’: Q&A with botanist Edicson Parra

Gianluca Cerullo 6 Jun 2019

Study reveals a fragile web of knowledge linking plants to people

Liz Kimbrough 4 Jun 2019
Students of Bole Gerji Primary and Secondary school in Addis Ababa planting trees that they received from the botanical garden as part of its ‘Model Gardening’ Project. Image courtesy Gullele Botanical Garden.

In Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa, Gullele Botanical Garden captivates city dwellers

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 3 Jun 2019

Earth’s hidden tree-microbe network mapped for the first time ever

Shreya Dasgupta 27 May 2019

Plants are working hard to keep pace with increasing carbon dioxide

Shreya Dasgupta 23 May 2019

Ñembi Guasu: Huge new conservation area in Bolivia’s Gran Chaco

Yvette Sierra Praeli 23 May 2019

How climate change could throw Māori culture off-balance

Ashley Stumvoll 23 May 2019

At 2,624 years, a bald cypress is oldest known living tree in eastern North America

Mongabay.com 16 May 2019

Hunting for rare plants in inaccessible spots: Q&A with drone pilot Ben Nyberg

Shreya Dasgupta 13 May 2019

‘To save a forest you have to destroy a nicer one’: U.S. Marines target forest in Guam

Nina Finley 8 May 2019

Drone rediscovers Hawaiian flower thought to be extinct

Mongabay.com 1 May 2019

Invasive plants a fast-growing threat to India’s rhinos

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 18 Mar 2019

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