Threatened Species Programme | SANBI Red List of South African Plants
Never before has South Africa’s flora faced such rapidly increasing threats. We hope that this red list update provides the necessary data to help conservation stakeholders identify species and sites that need urgent management actions to reverse declines.
Threatened Species Programme | SANBI Red List of South African Plants
South Africa uses the internationally endorsed IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria in the Red List of South African plants. This scientific system is designed to measure species' risk of extinction. The purpose of this system is to highlight those species that are most urgently in need of conservation action.
Threatened Plants of South Africa - The Botanical Society of South Africa
2020年5月15日 · South Africa is currently home to around 20 000 known species of plants, constituting around 10% of all plant species found on Earth. Sadly nearly a quarter of South Africa’s flora is classed as threatened with extinction or of conservation concern.
Red List of South African Plants - Wikipedia
The Red List of South African Plants is a system used to classify endemic species of plants in South Africa that are at risk of extinction. The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) designates the conservation status of endemic species according to the IUCN Red List system of categories and criteria.
Threatened Species Programme | SANBI Red List of South African Plants
Habitat loss, which includes the irreversible conversion of natural vegetation for infrastructure development, urban expansion, crop cultivation, timber plantations and mines is by far the most severe threat to South African plants, affecting more than 1600 taxa.
Threatened Species Programme - SANBI
The Threatend Species Programme (TSP), funded by the Royal Norwegian Embassy from 2004-2009 is a monitoring and reporting programme that is divided into plant and animal units. The plant component comprises the Red List of South African Plants and the Custodians of Rare and Endangered Wildflowers (CREW) programme.
Endangered Plants In South Africa - Ataafi
2021年10月17日 · Endangered Plants: Hundreds of plants are taken from their natural habitat in South Africa in a single day to be sold illegally through the plant trade. Other plants are on the verge of extinction due to natural disasters or urban development in their natural habitat.
The Red List of South African plants - A global first
2011年4月1日 · The Red Data list of South African plants (Raimondo, 2011) was used to check the threat status of plants and plant endemism. The structure of vegetation at each plot was recorded by noting...
The revision of South Africa’s gazetted list of threatened ... - SANBI
2022年11月22日 · Of the 120 threatened terrestrial ecosystem types 55 are Critically Endangered, 51 Endangered and 14 have been found to be Vulnerable. This new list has particular importance for Environmental Impact Assessment practitioners, as it is linked to Listing Notice 3 published under the National Environmental Management …
5 Critically endangered South African flora - Getaway Magazine
2021年11月25日 · At present, nearly a quarter of South Africa’s flora is classed as threatened with extinction or cause for conservation under the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species. The effects are telling, with the Western Cape region recording the second most extinctions globally since 1900.