By Fauna & Flora International, February 25, 2021
For many of us the snowdrops are coming up. It’s a welcome sight, in a rather bleak time.
But far beyond an occasional pick-me-up, plants do more for our planet than most people give them credit for.
Much, much more.
They provide us with moisture, biofuels, oxygen. They form the food that feeds us, the cloth that clothes us, the medicines that heal us.
They are the blooming heart of our ecosystems and the rooted foundation of our very way of life.
Our modern world without flowering plants wouldn't just be drab, it would be hotter, drier and void of countless animals that couldn’t survive those conditions. In a word, it would be unbearable.
But species after species of these quintessential cornerstones of nature are being razed to the ground and uprooted at a rate they cannot cope with. The sheer scale of these losses is sickening.
And we’ve hardly even noticed.
Plants are being ripped up by agricultural expansion, suffocated by overharvesting, corroded by chemicals and poisoned by contaminated soil causing a rate of extinction that’s double that of bird, mammal and amphibian extinctions combined.
And without these plants we are heading towards a climate, ecosystem and humanitarian disaster.
So that’s where we come in.
There are vast areas of land we need to protect, and vast numbers of locations we need to safeguard.
But, through your donations, we’re ensuring endangered flowers and plants aren’t ignored. We’re ensuring the survivors are protected and new seedlings are planted, from Central Asia's tulips, magnolias in Vietnam, baobabs in Madagascar to wildflower meadows in Transylvania.
Through your support we can begin to reverse this devastating decline, because there are still some people on this planet who remember it doesn’t get more important than plants.
Please help save endangered plant species. If everyone reading this donates just $10, you could help our plant teams reach and conserve some of the world's rarest plants. Thank you.
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