Too many African plants fall into the IUCN’s ‘not evaluated’ trap (commentary)
via news.mongabay.com
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Many African conservation decisions such as funding, policy, species prioritization and nursery propagation implicitly treat the IUCN Red List as a complete map of extinction risk. It is not. For plants including trees, the biggest risk is not only that we mis-rank species, it’s that we overlook vast numbers of species that have never been […]