The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation: a challenge and opportunity for the international community.
In 2002, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity adopted a Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. This Strategy provided an important new opportunity to focus on the potential loss of tens of thousands of threatened plant species. Here, we briefly describe the development and implementation of the Strategy.
National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland. peter.wysejackson@opw.ie
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Wyse Jackson
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