Plants comprise the largest percentage of species at risk in Canada, yet conservation biologists and researchers involved in plant-related work say the country needs to do much more to protect these plants.
Dr. Jenny McCune, a University of Lethbridge biology professor with expertise in plant conservation, and a team of researchers from universities across Canada surveyed 243 people who work in plant conservation or do research in plant ecology and evolution to assess the state of plant conservation in Canada. The results have been published in the interdisciplinary journal FACETS.
Dr. Jenny McCune is growing wood poppies, one of Canada's endangered plants, in the greenhouse at Science Commons.
“Most respondents agreed that Canada is underperforming or merely average when it comes to conserving plants,” says McCune. “If we saved all the p…
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