Plant Diversity Challenge
Welcome
Welcome to the Plant Diversity Challenge web pages. These provide information on the objectives and targets that comprise Plant Diversity Challenge, and outline the progress that is being made towards implementing the targets. If you have any news (e.g. consultations, conferences or publications) that you would like to be posted on these pages, or can provide any other relevant information, please contact: pdc@plantlife.org.uk.
Plant Diversity Challenge is the UK’s response to the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation and was launched by the UK Government in 2004. It identifies sixteen targets to be met by 2010 that are grouped under five objectives covering: understanding and documenting plant diversity, conserving plant diversity, using plant diversity sustainably, promoting education and awareness about plant diversity and building capacity for the conservation of plant diversity.
Plant Diversity Challenge sets out the framework for plant and fungus conservation throughout the UK and is being implemented by professionals and amateurs from a range of organisations including statutory bodies, NGOs, research institutions and botanical societies. A one-day conference was held earlier this year in order to assess progress towards meeting the targets, celebrate successes and identify the key challenges that lie ahead in the run up to 2010.
The ‘Gran Canaria Declaration on Climate Change and Plant Conservation’, published in April 2006 by the Gran Canaria Group, whose membership is drawn from major biodiversity conservation organisations around the world, calls for immediate conservation action to protect plant species most at risk from climate change. The need to consider the impact of climate change in ALL plant conservation activity, is fundamental to the implementation of Plant Diversity Challenge and as such, climate change is a key component of every target.
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