{"id":6714,"date":"2019-11-21T09:55:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T06:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6714"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","slug":"a-third-of-tropical-african-plants-face-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/21\/a-third-of-tropical-african-plants-face-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"A Third Of Tropical African Plants Face Extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Helen Briggs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A third of tropical\nAfrican plants are on the path to extinction, according to a new assessment.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of western Africa, Ethiopia, and parts of Tanzania and the\nDemocratic Republic of the Congo are the hardest hit regions, standing to lose\nmore than 40% of their richness of plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Species at risk include trees, shrubs, herbs and woody vines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Threats include deforestation, population growth and climate\nchange, the scientists said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Biodiversity provides countless benefits to humans and\nlosing diversity jeopardizes our future,&#8221; said lead researcher Dr Thomas\nCouvreur of the French National Institute for Sustainable Development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Loss of biodiversity will be particularly problematic in tropical Africa, &#8220;a region of incredible diversity but with major social and political challenges and expected rapid population growth over the next decades&#8221;, he added\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-50477684\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Helen Briggs A third of tropical African plants are on the path to extinction, according to a new assessment. Much of western Africa, Ethiopia, and parts of Tanzania and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6715,"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-6714","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\/6714","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=6714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}