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Threatened Plants of the World

The Threatened Plants Database and production of the
1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants

WCMC thanks ICI for providing support to the development of this web site on the world's threatened plants. ICI is one of the world's largest speciality chemical companies with manufacturing and offices in over 55 countries worldwide. At these sites ICI runs its own nature conservation programme, called Nature Link, and is pleased to support this global conservation effort.

The WCMC Threatened Plants Database has been developed over a period of many years. Currently it contains data on more than 140,000 plant names, linked to over 190,000 distribution areas. This information originates from and is linked to over 19,000 data sources. These include national red lists, input from members of IUCN Species Survival Commission plant groups and a wide range of published and unpublished literature.

The data are managed using BG-BASE collections management software, widely adopted by botanical institutions throughout the world.

Electronic Datasets

Four major datasets were made available to WCMC to integrate into this global database for the production of the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. These were provided by:

• The Nature Conservancy (for North and South America)
• the Australian Nature Conservation Agency (Australia)
• South Africa's National Botanical Institute (southern Africa) and
• Flora Europaea

  Please contact these organisations directly for their most up-to-date data.

Searchable Database

A subset of records from the Threatened Plants Database is provided here as a searchable database. This subset includes the data published in the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants:

• scientific name
• global threat status (following the original IUCN threat categories), and
• distribution to local (country or BRU) level, threat status at this level and
• CITES listing

In addition, data on common names and synonyms, omitted from the book due to lack of space, are also included in this searchable database.

The searchable database is formatted to enable you to comment on each record. Please let us have your comments on any taxa as well as comments on any improvements in this service that you would like to see made.

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For further information contact: Information Office, WCMC, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DL, UK Information enquiries Tel: +44 (0)1223 277722 Main switchboard Tel: +44 (0)1223 277314 Fax: +44 (0)1223 277136 Email: info@wcmc.org.uk Document URL: http:// www.wcmc.org.uk /species/plants/overview.htm Revision date: 4-February-2000 | Current date: 4-July-2000				Latest News from WCMC
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