{"id":1343,"date":"2010-09-29T13:45:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T13:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2010-11-01T14:17:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T14:17:13","slug":"20-of-plants-risk-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/20-of-plants-risk-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"20% of plants risk extinction."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If that doesn&#8217;t sound bad, then its worse.\u00a0 No plants = no animals.<\/p>\n<p>Normally we migt be shocked to hear that 20% of mammals face extinction, even though they tend to be less resilient than plants.\u00a0 Hearing that 20% of plants are at risk is a loud warning &#8211; that kind of hole in the food web could disrupt nature in a season or two.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t put it down to sensationalism by the IUCN &#8211; there is no time for sensationalism.\u00a0 It is just a depressing legacy that we are responsible for this degradation of nature, this hole in life.<\/p>\n<p>BBC\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-11434109\">One-fifth of world&#8217;s plants at risk of extinction<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iucn.org\/\">IUCN <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"srli-plants-press-release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/news\/srli-plants-press-release\">New study shows over one fifth of the world\u2019s plants are under threat of extinction<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"srli-plants-press-release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/news\/srli-plants-press-release\"><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.iucnredlist.org\/images\/news\/Maps_showing_where_plants_on_the_IUCN_Red_List_can_be_found.jpg?resize=914%2C599\" alt=\"\" width=\"914\" height=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If that doesn&#8217;t sound bad, then its worse.\u00a0 No plants = no animals. Normally we migt be shocked to hear that 20% of mammals face extinction, even though they tend to be less resilient than plants.\u00a0 Hearing that 20% of plants are at risk is a loud warning &#8211; that kind of hole in the &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/20-of-plants-risk-extinction\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">20% of plants risk extinction.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-risk-and-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-lF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}