Native Plant Trust and The Nature Conservancy announce Conserving Plant Diversity report

[Center for Plant Conservation]

The Native Plant Trust and The Nature Conservancy announce Conserving Plant Diversity, a new report that provides a scientific framework and detailed roadmap for conservation action and land protection at the species, habitat, and parcel scales that will save plant diversity—and thus overall biodiversity—in New England as the climate changes. The report analyzes whether more than a century of conservation has protected enough land in the right places to save the region’s plant diversity. It concludes that we need to conserve another 2.3 million acres of climate-resilient land in specific habitats, and it identifies which areas are priorities in each of the six New England states. This technical report and its mapping tool give policy makers, federal and state agencies, and land trusts in each state the detailed information needed to most effectively spend their conservation dollars. To read more, go to http://www.NativePlantTrust.org/plant-diversity-report/

Image of Spruce-fir habitat, photo by Michael Piantedosi, courtesy of Native Plant Trust

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