Plants at Risk of Extinction, New Report Finds
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Common Dreams One of several species at risk in Canada, the small white lady's slipper, (Cypripedium candidum). Photo by Mason Brock. A grim new assessment of the world's flora and fungi has found that two-fifths of its species are at risk of extinction as humans encroach on the natural world. Details here.