Conservation and climate change news
Plants have an essential role to play in mitigating the effects of climate change, because they take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Conversely, if forests are destroyed by burning, then carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere. Deforestation accounts for about one fifth of the world’s carbon emissions.
However, plants are threatened by environmental changes including climate change. Conserving plants is therefore critical to any sustainable solution to environmental change.
Kew's work in this area | Adopt a seed for £25 and help Kew protect plant life
Added protection for the seas around the Chagos archipelago
by: Colin Clubbe, UK Overseas Territories team blog04 Nov 2010
Colin Clubbe from Kew's UK Overseas Territories team reports on the latest news about the newly created Chagos Marine Reserve.
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Kew welcomes Nagoya biodiversity agreement
01 Nov 2010
Kew's Director, Professor Stephen Hopper talks about Kew's response to the agreement reached in Nagoya last week to protect the natural environment. A positive outcome for conserving the world's biodiversity.
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Preparing for an expedition to Ethiopia
by: Tim Harris, Herbarium blog29 Oct 2010
Find out about Tim's preparations for an imminent trip to Ethiopia. The team will work with Kew's partners and research the country's rarest plants.
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Nature’s backbone at risk
26 Oct 2010
The most comprehensive assessment of the world’s vertebrates confirms an extinction crisis with one-fifth of species threatened. A recent study by Kew and partners has further revealed that that one fifth of plant species are also at risk - including Caliphruria tenera. However, the situation would be worse were it not for current global conservation efforts, according to a study launched today at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, in Nagoya, Japan.
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How is Kew helping to conserve biodiversity?
18 Oct 2010
As international politicians and government representatives discuss the conservation and management of the world’s biodiversity at the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan this week, Kew reflects on its work with partners around the world to support biodiversity.
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New study shows one fifth of the world’s plants are under threat of extinction
29 Sep 2010
A global analysis of extinction risk for the world's plants, conducted by Kew together with the Natural History Museum, London and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), has revealed that the world’s plants are as threatened as mammals, with one in five of the world’s plant species threatened with extinction.
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Ecologists find new clues on climate change in 150 year-old pressed plants.
22 Sep 2010
Plants picked up to 150 years ago by Victorian collectors and held by the million in herbarium collections across the world could become a powerful – and much needed – new source of data for studying climate change, according to research published this week in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Ecology.
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The Plant List - the first working list of all known plants
20 Sep 2010
Kew and Missouri Botanical Gardens in the United States are collaborating with partners worldwide to create the first working list of all known plants.
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Plants back from the brink
Kew's Director, Professor Stephen Hopper, explains how we're all affected by plants becoming endangered.
Saving the planet’s biodiversity
Kew's Millennium Seed Bank partnership works with over a hundred partners in 54 countries around the world, helping protect the planet's biodiversity.
