News Headline

A Third of Tropical Africa’s Plants At Risk of Extinction

Source
Yale Environment 360

Publication Date
2019-11-27

One-third of — or more 7,000 — plant species in tropical Africa could be at risk of extinction due to climate change and human activities like logging, deforestation from agriculture, and mining, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances.

Content
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/a-third-of-tropical-africas-plants-at-risk-of-extinction