All life depends on plants.
Threats to plant communities range from the destruction of large areas of trees through logging, to pollution from fertilisers, car exhausts, factory emissiona and sewage.
Increased fertility as a result of fertiliser pollution and nitrogen deposition results in a decline in the diversity of plant species with vegetation becoming increasingly dominated by fewer, more competative species
Housing the largest living plant collection in the world, Kew Gardens also undertakes reaserch into taxonomy, economic and ethnobotany and conservation. www.rbgkew.org.uk
Responsible for acquiring, characterising, maintaining, evaluating, documenting and distributing genetic resources of agricultural and horticultural crops, including wild species. www.ars-grin.gov/ars/SoAtlantic/Griffin/pgrcu
Objectives are to develop, maintain, and co-ordinate a national network of organisations and individuals, promoting co-operation and information exchange for plant conservation and contribute to the recovery and long term survival of threatened plants. www.anbg.gov.au/anpc
The Society owns and manages seven sanctuaries in New England, protecting rare species as well as examples of New England habitats. In the wild, they monitor the survival of hundreds of rare plants and provide habitat management advice and information. www.newfs.org/conservationtab.htm
Study and preserves Georgia's flora through multidisciplinary research, education, and advocacy; facilitate the recovery of rare, threatened, and endangered plants of Georgia and the southeast U.S. through collaborative efforts in our state; and communica www.uga.edu/gpca
The CNPS is a non-profit organization dedicated to the appreciation and conservation of California native plants through education, science, horticulture and advocacy. www.cnps.org
Plant Conservation Group at the University of Abertay, Dundee whose main activity is the application of biotechnological techniques to plant conservation problems. scieng.tay.ac.uk/plant
A voluntary alliance of over 65 botanists, private institutions, and government agencies, organized to promote the recovery of New England's endangered flora. www.newfs.org/nepcop.htm
A small unit within the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Science, undertaking research and extension and post-graduate teaching directed at improving the conservation status of the Cape Floristic Region. www.uct.ac.za/depts/ipc
The majority of land at The Holden Arboretum, Kirtland, Ohio, is maintained in a natural state. Even though it gives the appearance of being untouched, crucial management decisions are always being made to maintain the diversity and health of these areas. www.holdenarb.org/cons.htm
Carries out ecological research aimed at gaining insight into processes at the ecosytem and population level and uses those insights to optimise nature conservation. www.dow.wau.nl/natcons/NP
Aims to protect, enhance and increase native vegetation in Australian landscapes, and is a key Program of the Commonwealth Natural Heritage Trust. www.environment.gov.au/bg/bushcare
Information for the gardener about plant classification, structure, anatomy, physiology and a section on plant conservation. www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/botany/index.html
Information from the Gloucestershire group of the NCCPG including a newsletter, the programme for 2002, photographs and contact details. www.manntaylor.com/nccpg.html
Exhibit on cloud forest biodiversity conservation from the Strybing Arboretum Society. Details on rare and endangered plant species, collaborations with institutions world-wide and plant collecting expeditions to Southeast Asia. www.strybing.org/cf
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