Saving Europe’s threatened flora: progress towards GSPC Target 8 in Europe |
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Authors: | Suzanne Sharrock Meirion Jones |
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Institution: | (1) Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Descanso House, 199 Kew Road, Richmond, TW9 3BW, UK |
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Abstract: | The European flora is of global significance but many species are facing an ever increasing range of threats, especially the
growing impacts of climate change. While various estimates have been made for the number of threatened plant species in Europe,
an up-to-date European plant Red List does not presently exist. Target 8 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC)
calls for 60% of threatened plant species to be conserved in ex situ collections by 2010. In the absence of a European plant
Red List, it is difficult to monitor progress at the regional level towards this target. To address this gap Botanic Gardens
Conservation International (BGCI) has developed a consolidated list of European threatened species as a step towards a formal
Red List. The database consists of national Red List data from 28 European countries and includes records for over 11,000
taxa. National Red List data were supplemented by information on the critically endangered plants of Europe provided by the
Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle/European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity and the Conservatoire Botanique National
de Brest. A list of regionally threatened species was extracted from the database and screened against BGCI’s database of
plants in cultivation in botanic gardens (PlantSearch) and ENSCONET’s (European Native Seed Conservation Network) database
of plants conserved in European seed banks. This analysis revealed that 42% of European threatened species are currently included
in ex situ conservation programmes in Europe. |
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