Botanic gardens must team up to save wild plants from extinction, say researchers
by University of Cambridge
A major study of botanic gardens around the world has revealed their struggles with one fundamental aim: to safeguard the world's most threatened plants from extinction.
Researchers analyzed a century's worth of records—from 1921 to 2021—from fifty botanic gardens and arboreta currently growing half a million plants, to see how the world's living plant collections have changed over time.