27 May 2023
Sophie Richards
Project Officer: Uganda Tropical Important Plant Areas
Department
Team
Specialism
Conservation, biodiversity analyses, GIS, extinction risk
Collaborating with in-country partners, I work on identifying Important Plant Areas, defined as the most important areas for plant conservation, in Uganda and previously Mozambique.
MSc Plant and Fungal Taxonomy Biodiversity and Conservation, Queen Mary University of London (2019)
BA (Hons) Biological Sciences, University of Oxford (2017)
Darbyshire, I., Richards, S., Osborne, J., Matimele, H., Langa, C., Datizua, C., Massingue, A., Rokni, S., Williams, J., Alves, T. & Sousa, C. de (In Press).
The Important Plant Areas of Mozambique. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Tack W., Engledow H., Veríssimo Pereira N.,... Richards S.L.,... Sosef M.S.M. (2022)
PhytoKeys 206: 137-151.
Nic Lughadha, E., Bachman, S.P., Leão, T.C.C., Forest, F., Halley, J.M., Moat, J.,... Richards, S.L.,... Walker. B.E. (2022).
Extinction risk and threats to plants and fungi.
Plants, People, Planet. 2: 389– 408.
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Tropical Important Plant Areas (TIPAs) in Uganda
Identifying and promoting the long-term conservation and sustainable management of Uganda’s most important sites for plant diversity.
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Tropical Important Plant Areas (TIPAs) in Mozambique
Identifying and promoting the long-term conservation and sustainable management of Mozambique’s most important sites for plant diversity.
Get in touch
s.richards@kew.org