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The striking lesser butterfly orchid (Platanthera bifolia) growing in a meadow near Kirriemuir.
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Ali Murfitt – Natural Talent Apprentice out ‘in the field’ surveying grassland.
Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden was the venue for a recent Wild Plant Horizon conference which brought botanists, conservationists, land managers, business leaders, educationalists and artists together. By any standards it was a diverse range of individuals and organisations, but they were united by a shared desire to help Scotland’s plants and fungi.
As Dr. Deborah Long, conservation manager at Plantlife (co-hosts of the event) remarked afterwards “The timing of the ‘Wild Plant Horizon’ conference was actually quite significant. A new report from Plantlife in Spring 2012 is expected to show continuing losses in plant diversity across the UK, with a particularly gloomy picture for Scotland.” The issues affecting Scotland’s plants are mirrored in many locations across the globe and will require concerted action. With minds firmly focussed, the Wild Plant Horizon meeting identified areas for action and enthused those present to do more to help deliver the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC). Scotland is now gearing up to deliver the key aims of this strategy to provide a better future for our native plants and fungi. The Edinburgh conference came out of a refreshed international GSPC. This had been endorsed by many of the world’s governments in October 2010 and the challenge now is to deliver on a range of GSPC targets by 2020.
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