Humans Risk Killing Off One-In-Five of All Plant Species
by The Daily Eye Team May 17 2016, 1:46 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 21 secsTwenty-one percent of the world’s plant species—essential to food and medicine supplies—are threatened with extinction, according to a report published Tuesday by the Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) in Kew, London.
But there’s hope: It’s not too late to remedy the solution, and researchers are still finding as many as 2,000 new species every year.