Colorful tropical plants threatened with extinction, study finds
But nearly half of the species in the genus are threatened with extinction, a new analysis finds, putting the genus — which ...
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Nearly Half of the Colorful and Charismatic Heliconia Tropical Plant Species Are Threatened With Extinction, New Study Reveals
Using data from over 10,000 herbarium specimens, Smithsonian scientists uncover the urgent conservation needs of the plants, ...
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Half of the world's Heliconia species are at risk of extinction
Nearly half of Heliconia species—tropical plants vital to rainforest ecosystems—are at risk of extinction, according to new ...
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Feeding Frenzy
It's not much to see from the air: a spray of tropical shrubs on what appears to be a truckload of sand. Hanifaru is so small a child could walk its entire scimitar-shaped coastline in a ten ...