How Britain is failing to protect our most endangered wild plants from extinction
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
Published: 26 April 2006
Britain is failing to meet its stated objectives designed to protect the nation's most endangered wild plants from going extinct, according to a group of leading botanists.
In four years' time, Britain is supposed to have met 16 different targets designed to safeguard its threatened flora, but the country is on track to meet fewer than one-third of them.
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