China's magnolias

An effort to save them

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Workshop aims to save magnolias

China is host to approximately 40% of the 245 known species of magnolia. At a Global Trees Campaign workshop in China in June 2004, organised as part of the data-gathering for the Red List of Magnoliaceae, 14 Chinese Magnolia species were identified as threatened with extinction in the wild.

Threats to wild magnolias include habitat loss and fragmentation, and over-exploitation for medicinal or ornamental use. Some species have been reduced to perilously small numbers, such as the Critically Endangered Magnolia sinica, which now numbers just 10 trees in the wild. Five species were prioritized as being most urgently in need of conservation action: Magnolia sinica, Magnolia grandis, Magnolia sargentiana, Magnolia phanerophlebia, Magnolia coriacea. Read more at www.altmeds.com

 

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