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Many plants are going extinct – yet thousands have no public images!

  From Conversation website For hundreds of years, botanists have collected plants to describe species and keep in herbaria across the world. But while physical plant specimens are irreplaceable, photographs of plants are also an invaluable resource for botanical research, conservation and education. Photographs of plants capture information that can be lost from dead, dried plants, such as flower colour. They also provide ecological context and form the cornerstone of many field guides and education resources. All plant species known...

Plants are finally in the spotlight!

They count, they hunt, they deceive, they communicate, they protect their relatives and they manipulate animals for their own ends.  With “The Green Planet” – a brand new five-part series entirely dedicated to plants and fungi fronted by passionate naturalist Sir David Attenborough – at the  Plantlife charity we are all enormously excited to see the BBC kick off 2022 with a firm focus on plants some twenty-six years after The Private Life Of Plants aired on BBC One. Sir...