{"id":3028,"date":"2019-06-11T07:13:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T07:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","slug":"plant-extinction-bad-news-for-all-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/11\/plant-extinction-bad-news-for-all-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant Extinction &#8216;Bad News for All Species&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Helen Briggs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Almost 600 plant\nspecies have been lost from the wild in the last 250 years, according to a\ncomprehensive study.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number is based on\nactual extinctions rather than estimates, and is twice that of all bird, mammal\nand amphibian extinctions combined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists say plant\nextinction is occurring up to 500 times faster than what would be expected\nnaturally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May, a UN report\nestimated that one million animal and plant species were threatened with\nextinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers say their\nanalysis of all documented plant extinctions in the world shows what lessons\ncan be learned to stop future extinctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Millions of other species depend on plants for\ntheir survival, humans included, so knowing which plants we are losing and from\nwhere, will feed back into conservation programmes targeting other organisms as\nwell\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-48584515\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Helen Briggs Almost 600 plant species have been lost from the wild in the last 250 years, according to a comprehensive study. The number is based on actual extinctions&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}