[PCA] ARTICLE: Earth Optimism: Success Stories in Plant Conservation

[Prescott, Leah]

By Gary Krupnick and Nancy Knowlton
August 2017
Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Target 14 of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation calls for an
increase in the communication of the importance of plant diversity and
conservation by education and public awareness programs. An unrelenting
torrent of bad news about the environment and the loss of plant
biodiversity, however, have led to despair among conservation practitioners
and the public. Much of the damage to terrestrial habitats and the loss of
plant biodiversity stem from problems that both biologists and the public
can do something about. Indeed, the past decades have witnessed a growing
number of successes in describing new species, saving species, protecting
places, and restoring habitats. A number of plant species have come back
from the brink of extinction and are being delisted. Priority areas for
conservation are being identified and these areas are being established as
protected nature reserves. Habitats once degraded by farming have been
ecologically restored with native plant species. These and other examples
underpin the Earth Optimism initiative that seeks to recognize, learn from,
replicate, scale up, and celebrate our successes as a means to motivate
further action.

Full article at:
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3417/D-16-00010A

-- 
Leah Prescott
Bureau of Land Management
Plant Conservation Program Assistant
202-912-7232

National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration
<https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/national-seed-strategy>
Plant Conservation Alliance <http://www.plantconservationalliance.org/>
Seeds of Success
<https://www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/native-plant-communities/native-plant-and-seed-material-development/collection>
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