ABOUT CONSERVEPLANTS
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DESCRIPTION
Even though plants represent an essential part of our lives offering exploitational, supporting and cultural services, we know very little about the biology of the rarest and most threatened plant species, and even less about their conservation status. Rapid changes in the environment and climate, today more pronounced than ever, affect their fitness and distribution causing rapid species declines, sometimes even before they had been discovered. Despite the high goals set by conservationists to protect native plants from further degradation and extinction, the initiatives for the conservation of threatened species in Europe are scattered and have not yielded the desired results.
OBJECTIVES
The main aim of this Action is to improve plant conservation in Europe through the establishment of a network of scientists and other stakeholders who deal with different aspects of plant conservation, from plant taxonomy, conservation genetics, conservation physiology and reproductive biology to protected area's managers, not forgetting social scientists, who are crucial when dealing with the general public.
DURATION
15 October 2019 - 14 October 2023
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Are you looking for more detailed information about ConservePlants? Detailed information about this Action can be found in the Memorandum of Understanding and on the website at cost.eu/actions/CA18201/
WG 1 - Improving knowledge in plant biology for appropriate in situ conservation
WG 2 - Sharing experience in plant ex situ conservation
WG 3 - Filling the gaps in plant conservation
WG 4 - Human dimensions in plant conservation
WG 5 - Genomic approaches in plant conservation
Action keywords
in situ plant conservation - ex situ plant conservation - conservation genetics - red lists of threatened plant species - citizen science
