PLANT LIFE
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There are about 435,000 unique land plant species on Earth.1
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36.5% of all land plant species are "exceedingly rare": they have been observed or recorded less than five times, climate change and human land use are now disproportionately impacting rare species.2
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Peer-reviewed studies estimate that 1/3 of all plant and animal species can go extinct in the next 50 years due to ecological disaster.3
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