The life force of our planet

Plants. Without them, life as we know it would simply cease to exist.

From the multitalented mangrove, to majestic magnolias, to verdant vines and the voracious Venus flytrap, our planet is home to them all.

They thrive in some of the richest, most dynamic environments on Earth, and some of the most barren. They live in a world of extremes, and this creates some extraordinary obscurities.

Flowers that blossom only in the dead of night.

Plants that reek with the stench of rotting corpses.

Trees that produce seeds just once in an entire decade.

Lush meadows of seagrass, hidden deep beneath the ocean surface.

But whilst the world of flora may be wonderful and wild, the way humanity has treated it is nothing short of woeful.   

Our planet’s plants are in grave danger.

An alarming 40% of the world’s plants are thought to be threatened with extinction.

Researchers have discovered that 571 species that have been wiped out since 1750, and the plant extinction rate is 500 times greater now than before the Industrial Revolution.

Both of these statistics are likely to be underestimates.

Plants are weathering assaults from all sides: habitat loss is fracturing forests into isolated fragments; mind-numbing monocultures are threatening biodiversity; and climate change is creating increasingly volatile environmental conditions.

It’s a disturbing picture.

We must intervene, before the world’s flora is damaged beyond repair. Because if plants go, we all go.

With your support, FFI is helping plants around the world. Working with local communities, we are helping to protect and reconnect wildlife-rich and carbon-rich forests, save threatened plants and safeguard crucial corners of this green planet.

We must not underestimate the critical, intimate relationship between plants, humans, and other wildlife on Earth. Our survival depends on it. So please, make a donation today to help save our planet’s plants.

Please help save our planet's plants. If everyone reading this donates just $3, you could help fund our vital projects protecting plants, the creatures they help, and ultimately our planet. Thank you.

DONATE $3

“Ever since we arrived on this planet as a species, we’ve cut them down, dug them up, burnt them and poisoned them... We destroy plants at our peril. Neither we nor any other animal can survive without them.”

Sir David Attenborough
FFI member and vice-president

Photo Credit: Mark Freeth - flickr

David Attenborough photo credit: Gill Shaw/FFI

Our mailing address is:
Fauna & Flora International USA, Inc.
1720 N Street, Fourth Floor
Washington, DC 20036
USA

Registered charity number: 1011102. Registered company number: 2677068. Copyright 2022 Fauna & Flora International, All rights reserved.

If you're donating in USD, then please be aware that FFI USA is a non-profit, tax-exempt charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations to FFI USA are tax-deductible as allowed by law. FFI USA Inc. confirms that no goods or services, either in whole or in part, were rendered in exchange for this donation in accordance with the requirements of the IRS. Our federal tax identification number is 81-3967095.