State of the world's plants report - 2016.

By Roy Uk. 2016

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The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation? (2022, background): “The 2016 Kew Royal Botanical Garden report (RBG Kew, 2016) acknowledged that proving extinction in plants is dif ﬁ cult because species may be dif ﬁ cult to detect, especially those that do not ﬂ ower every year, and because of lack of surveying effort.”
Important Plant Areas: revised selection criteria for a global approach to plant conservation (2017, background): “…species have undergone no formal assessment of their threat status—to date only c. 5% of all plant species have been assessed applying IUCN criteria (Bachman et al. 2016)—and that there is no current global list of threatened habitats and little prospect of such a list being ﬁnalised in the…”
Assessing the Relevance of Herbarium Collections as Tools for Conservation Biology (2017, background): “Given that many extinctions of plants are linked to the loss of natural habitats (RBG Kew, 2016), herbarium studies permit to expand our knowledge of historical changes in land use and within a diversity of habitats.”