“Most plant extinctions happen silently,” with plant populations vanishing without people noticing until the absence starts to take its toll on nature, said Eimear Nic Lughadha, a conservation researcher at Kew.
But plants can be trickier to assess than animals, as botanists can’t follow a plant’s footprints across a savannah or listen for mating calls through a tangled forest. Island-growing plants are at greatest risk because “there’s nowhere to escape to,” Nic Lughadha said.Add a description of the graphic for screen readers. This is invisible on the page.
Even better, since the mid-2000s, scientists have been cataloging between 2,100 and 2,600 new species every year — far outpacing the number of plants that have vanished.Scientists have now spent decades in sterile laboratories carefully cultivating the remaining individuals of vanishing species and saving seeds in enormous vaults. With an immense array of scientific tools at their disposal, it’s time to start planning for what comes next, scientists said.
But it didn't start like this. Other places cut down their forests and nothing happened to them. Now those countries that still have forests are somehow responsible, and people there are supposed to lose money, businesses, and development. It doesn't seem fair.
Jungles and rain forests are their own biosphere important to all of earth..
Please talk to my Prime Minister he will show the way forward.
Making rain forests and jungles disappear will be the real cause for global warming..