{"id":12722,"date":"2016-05-10T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/plants-are-our-lifeline-but-were-letting-them-die-michael-mccarthy\/"},"modified":"2016-05-11T22:09:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T15:09:32","slug":"plants-are-our-lifeline-but-were-letting-them-die-michael-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/plants-are-our-lifeline-but-were-letting-them-die-michael-mccarthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Plants are our lifeline \u2013 but we\u2019re letting them die | Michael McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHuman existence is utterly dependent on wild plant species we\u2019ve shamefully neglected. Now Kew has become a global voice for plantsThere seem to have been no national ceremonies to mark the end of botany. A discipline that had flourished in our universities for centuries \u2013 the first Oxford professor of botany, Robert Morison, was awarded his chair in 1669 \u2013 slipped away quietly into oblivion in 2013, with the graduation of the last students on the last undergraduate botany course, at Bristol. You can\u2019t do a botany degree in Britain any more. A once familiar element of life has simply disappeared, quite unremarked upon. Like the disappearance of hitchhiking, you might say. Related: One in five of world’s plant species at risk of extinction Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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