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Title:
Nearly half of South Africa's Protea species on the brink of extinction
Author:
Sheree Bega
Published:
Mail & Guardian, 14 December 2020
From the article:
The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species, which is the world’s indicator of the health of species biodiversity, has released its first comprehensive assessment of the southern Hemisphere’s protea plant family, finding 637 of the 1464 known species are vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered.