A
study recently completed by scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens in
Kew, United Kingdom, together with colleagues at the Natural History
Museum in London and the International Union for the Conservation of
Nature has revealed that about 22% of plant species,or one in five
throughout the world, are in jeopardy.
The report, “Sampled Red
List Index for Plants,” evaluated 7,000 plant species considered
representative of the 380,000 species thought to exist in the world.
Along with the alarming indication of loss,the threat to the plants’
existence was found to originate overwhelmingly from human activities
such as deforestation, agriculture and livestock grazing.
The
survey’s findings will be presented at next month’s United Nations
Convention on Biological Diversity in Japan, where the scientists will
be recommending that new goals with limits be placed on biodiversity
loss.
Royal Botanic Gardens Director Stephen Hopper stated, “We
cannot sit back and watch plant species disappear – plants are the basis
of all life on Earth, providing clean air,water, food and fuel.
All
animal and bird life depends on them, and so do we.” Many thanks,
Director Hopper and other participating researchers at Royal Botanic
Gardens, Natural History Museum in London and the International Union
for the Conservation of Nature for your extensive work that reveals the
alarming loss of precious plant life on our planet.
May we act
quickly in showing our care for these vital contributors to life on
Earth, to ensure their survival and our own. The need for gentler
stewardship of our fragile ecosphere is a message that has frequently
been emphasized by Supreme Master Ching Hai, as in the following excerpt
from an April 2009 videoconference in South Korea.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
We should all remember that we share this planetary abode, the water,
the air, the resources, the food, all of nature, we share only. We
should not be possessive of nature. So, the best thing we can do for all
the animals is to stop causing suffering to them, stop killing them,
stop eating them, stop damaging all our habitats. Stop damaging our
environment. Be veg, go green and save their planet too, the planet of
the animals.
It restores the balance of our oceans and forests
and preserves our finite natural resources. This is truly the best way
to restore our environment and ensure the highest degree of peace.
Such a simple solution – being veg - that’s it.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20100929-294956/One-fifth-of-worlds-plants-threatened-by-extinctionstudyhttp://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/09/28/plant.extinction.threat.study/index.html?hpt=C1http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1316095/1-5-worlds-plants-threatened-extinction-snowdrop.html
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