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Publications
Plantlife has produced a range of publications over the years, from lichen ID guides to international reports.
Below is an archive of what’s available online. Click on the publication you are interested in and you’ll be taken to a page where you can download a PDF. If you can’t find what you’re looking for please email us - although most are now out of print, we’ll be happy to see if we have any original copies left.
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2008 Plantlife Annual Report and Financial ...
This report contains the following: Trustees’ (Directors’) ...
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2008 Plantlife Annual Review
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2009 Plantlife Annual Report and Financial ...
This report contains the following: Trustees’ (Directors’) ...
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2009 Plantlife Annual Review
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2010 Plantlife Annual Report and Financial ...
This report contains the following: Trustees’ (Directors’) ...
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A Lichen Red Data List for Wales
This report presents the results of a comprehensive analysis of the current ...
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A sustainable future for Europe: The European ...
This Strategy brings coordination and a clear focus to a complex set of ...
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A Vascular Plant Red Data List for Wales
This groundbreaking report is the first comprehensive analysis of vascular ...
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Arable Plants in Scotland: a management guide
This management guide aims to help farmers and land managers across Scotland ...
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Arable Plants: A management guide
A guide to managing plant species in arable habitats.
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At War with Aliens
Changes needed to protect our native plants from the spread of invasive ...
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Bluebells for Britain – the Report of the 2003 ...
The findings and recommendations from the 2003 survey of the native, Spanish ...
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Bluebells of Britain
An introduction to native Bluebells and how you can help protect them (4 ...
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Breaking new ground for juniper: A management ...
This guide contains detailed advice to aid the recovery of juniper ...
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Bryophytes of Atlantic Woodlands Guide 1: Woodland
This Plantlife field guide will help those who want to go a little further ...
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Bryophytes of Atlantic Woodlands Guide 2: Ravines
This Plantlife field guide will help those who want to go a little further ...
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Bryophytes of Scotland’s oceanic heath
This Plantlife field guide will help those who want to go a little further ...
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Bryophytes of Scotland’s pine woodlands
This Plantlife field guide will help those who want to go a little further ...
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Ciliate Strap-lichen: Gift of the Gulf Stream
Leaflet advising landowners how to manage coastal habitats for Ciliate ...
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Conservation of lower plants and fungi in Wales
A strategy and action plan for the conservation of lower plants and fungi in ...
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Conserving Important Plant Areas: Investing in the ...
South-east Europe is one of the most diverse regions in Europe for wild ...
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Create your own wildflower meadow
A quick introduction to creating your own meadow (4 pages).
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Cryphaea lamyana: The multi-fruited river-moss
Advice to landowners on looking after riversides for this rare species and a ...
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Cryphaea lamyana: Y mwsogl afon lluosffrwyth
Bilingual advice to landowners on looking after riversides for this rare ...
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Datganiad y Galdrist Rithiol
An bilingual Welsh and English version of the Ghost Orchid Declaration. A ...
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Defining Important Plant Areas in the Mediterranean ...
Regional workshop report.
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Developing IPA boundaries in the UK
Since publication of the UK IPA list in July 2007, much thought and ...
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Ecology and management of ear-lobed dog-lichen and ...
A leaflet giving information about Dog-lichens, with advice for landowners ...
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Effects of land management on the location and ...
A desk review and evaluation of the available evidence. Report written by ...
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England’s Green Unpleasant Land
Describes the losses of one of England's most beautiful habitats, the causes ...
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European Plant Conservation Strategy
In June 2001, the Planta Europa network mobilised all its plant conservation ...
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Farming for Arable Flowers/Ffermio er iles blodeu ...
Bilingual English and Welsh brochure advising farmers how threatened arable ...
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Forestry Recommissioned: bringing England’s ...
Plantlife’s report, revealing that a lack of management has led to ...
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Fungi of Scottish Pinewoods: Guide 1
A guide to widespread and common fungi found in Scotland's pinewoods.
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Fungi of Scottish Pinewoods: Guide 2
A guide to the rarer fruiting fungi of Scotland's pinewoods.
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Gardening Without Harmful Invasive Plants
A guide to plants you can use in your garden in place of invasive non-native ...
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Genes, Crops and Superweeds
The potential implications for wild plants from the release of genetically ...
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Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
In April 2002, the Global Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a ...
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Gofalu am fwsogl a llysiau afu prin ar hyd ymylon ...
In English and Welsh. Bilingual advice to landowners on looking after ...
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Grassland gems: Managing lawns and pastures for ...
Short guide on good practice for encouraging fungi on pastures and lawns. ...
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Herbal Harvests with a Future – Towards ...
A set of recommendations aimed at achieving greater sustainability ...
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Here today, here tomorrow?
Horizon scanning for invasive non-native plants.Invasive non-native species ...
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Identification and Conservation of Important Plant ...
This is the report of the project and Regional Workshop ...
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Identifying and protecting the world’s most ...
This guide provides information on Plantlife International’s Important ...
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Identifying Important Plant Areas: A site selection ...
This manual describes the aims and background of the IPA Programme, the role ...
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Important Arable Plant Areas
A brief analysis of existing data that has gone into the identification of ...
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Important Plant Areas and Climate Change
This factsheet presents key information on the threats to Important Plant ...
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Important Plant Areas and Forestry
This factsheet outlines the conservation issues and threats facing forest ...
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Important Plant Areas and the Common Agricultural ...
This factsheet outlines the conservation issues and threats facing ...
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Important Plant Areas around the world
Successes & case studies in implementing the Global Strategy for Plant ...
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Important Plant Areas for Algae
Algae are the unsung heroes of the natural world. Freshwater and marine ...
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Important Plant Areas in Central and Eastern Europe
In 2002, Plantlife International and partners in seven countries in central ...
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Important Plant Areas in Europe 2002-2010: Priority ...
Important Plant Areas (IPAs) are internationally significant sites for wild ...
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Important Plant Areas in Southern Africa (Draft ...
One of the outcomes of an IPA workshop held in Pretoria National Botanical ...
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Important Plant Areas in the UK: technical report
This document summarises the steps that have been taken to select Important ...
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Important Plant Areas of the south and east ...
Important Plant Areas (IPA) are internationally important sites for wild ...
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Important Plant Areas, Water and Wetlands
This factsheet outlines the conservation issues and threats facing water and ...
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Important Stonewort Areas - An assessment of the ...
Where are the best places for stoneworts? This report provides a list of the ...
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Juniper in the British Uplands
The report from the Juniper survey carried out in Scotland and England and ...
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Juniper survey
Juniper was once a common shrub in Britain. Traditionally, it was valued as ...
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Junk Food for Plants: How Nutrient Pollution is ...
A description of one of the prime threats to wild-plant diversity in the UK. ...
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Keeping ponds and aquaria without harmful invasive ...
A guide to plants you can use in place of invasive non-native species in ...
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Landscaping without harmful invasive plants
A guide to plants you can use in landscaping in place of invasive non-native ...
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Lesser butterfly-orchid / Tegeirian Llydanwyrdd ...
Advice for how to manage your land for the lesser butterfly-orchid/Tegeirian ...
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Lichens and bryophytes of Atlantic woodland in ...
An introduction to their ecology and management.
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Lichens and elm trees
An introduction to threatened lichen species associated with old elm trees ...
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Lichens of Atlantic Woodlands - Guide 1: Lichens on ...
A field guide for identifying lichens of Atlantic woodlands. This guide ...
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Lichens of Atlantic Woodlands - Guide 2: Lichens on ...
A companion field guide to the one above, for identifying some of the ...
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Lichens of Old Woodlands
This beautiful poster highlights a very special group of threatened lichens, ...
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Lichens of Scottish pinewoods: Guide 1
A guide to leafy and shrubby lichens on pine, birch, alder and deadwood.
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Lichens of Scottish pinewoods: Guide 2
A guide to crustose and scaly lichens on pine, birch and alder, and lichens ...
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Looking after bryophytes and lichens of ...
This leaflet explains how to identify if you have an oceanic ravine in your ...
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Looking after bryophytes in Scotland’s springs ...
This leaflet will help land managers and conservationists who manage ...
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Looking after green shield-moss (Buxbaumia viridis) ...
Leaflet with advice to landowners and managers about looking after this ...
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Looking after rare mosses and liverworts beside ...
Advice to landowners on looking after reservoirs for this group of rare ...
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Looking after rare mosses and liverworts in coastal ...
Management advice to landowners and managers for looking after rare mosses ...
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Looking after Scotland’s oceanic heath
This habitat is also known as ‘Scottish liverwort heath’, the ...
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Management of woodland plants in Atlantic ...
Atlantic woodland is one of six priority habitats under Plantlife ...
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Management of woodland plants in Caledonian pine ...
This report describes a conservation management framework for Caledonian ...
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Managing Scotland’s pinewoods for their wild ...
This booklet provides land managers with advice on managing native and ...
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Managing Seashores for Sea Loch Egg Wrack
A guide to managing and growing Sea Loch Egg Wrack (also known as 'Wig ...
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Managing trees in Scotland’s open habitats for ...
This booklet will help land managers and conservationists who manage ...
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Managing uplands for juniper
Along with Scots pine and yew, juniper is one of Britain’s three ...
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Managing your land for chamomile
Short non-technical management advice for those with chamomile on their land ...
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Managing your land for ground pine
Short non-technical management advice for those with Ground Pine on their ...
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Managing your land with fungi in mind
Guide for landowners on good practice for encouraging fungi on their land. ...
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Medicinal Plants in Conservation and Development
This report outlines a 'blueprint' for medicinal plant conservation in the ...
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Mid-term review of the European Plant Conservation ...
This mid-term review of the EPCS was undertaken by the fourth Planta Europa ...
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New Priorities for Arable Plant Conservation
A report highlighting a number of issues of current concern to Plantlife ...
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People and plants: Mapping the UK’s wild flora
The final report of Making it Count for People and Plants - a joint ...
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Planning with Plants in Mind
A short guidance leaflet helping people to understand their way through the ...
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Plant Crime
Is the law working to save our threatened plants from criminal damage? (20 ...
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Plant Diversity Challenge – the UK’s ...
Produced by Plantlife on behalf of Defra. This is the UK's Plant ...
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Plant Diversity Challenge: 3 years - 16 targets - 1 ...
A 2007 review of progress in the UK towards the Global Strategy for Plant ...
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Planta Europa Critical Targets 2005-7
The Planta Europa Network, at its fourth Planta Europa conference in ...
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Plantlife Memorandum and Articles of Association
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Plantlife Scotland newsletter 2010
The fourth annual newsletter for Plantlife Scotland members and volunteers, ...
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Plantlife Scotland Newsletter 2011
The fifth annual newsletter for Plantlife Scotland members and volunteers, ...
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Plantlife Supporter Member Regulations
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Pond Alert ! Managing your garden pond to protect ...
Guide for gardeners on avoiding invasive garden plants and which are the ...
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Pond Alert! Alternative plants
Use native plants in your pond for the good of Scotland's wildlife. The ...
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Pond Alert! Create your own bog garden
Take a look at this colourful leaflet and see some of the native plants you ...
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Pond Alert! Labelling
Find out more about the importance of accurate labelling, so you know what ...
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Pond Alert! Problem pond plants
Avoid these species for the health of your pond and the wider countryside. ...
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Pond Alert! Tried and tested
'Tried and tested' gives useful examples of projects involving pond creation ...
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Quality and quantity: revitalising Scotland’s ...
There is much debate about the future of Scotland’s woodland. A great ...
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Ragwort: Friend or foe?
Plantlife has joined forces with the British Horse Society and Butterfly ...
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Ragwort: Friend or Foe?
Plantlife has joined forces with the British Horse Society and Butterfly ...
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Recommended English names for fungi in the UK
A report containing a list of recommended English names for 1,000 species of ...
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Regional workshop on Important Plant Areas and ...
South-east Asia summary report.
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Review of the European Plant Conservation Strategy: ...
Full term review of the European Plant Conservation Strategy.
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Rhododendron ponticum: Impact on lower plants and ...
Read our report on the impact of Rhododendron ponticum on the bryophytes and ...
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Saving the forgotten kingdom: A strategy for the ...
Without fungi, the world would not exist as we know it. This report offers a ...
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Scotland’s rare tooth fungi: An introduction ...
Leaflet with information about this group of fungi, and advice to landowners ...
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Strategy for the conservation of lower plants and ...
Published by Plantlife Link Scotland. A strategy to protect, conserve and ...
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The Ghost Orchid Declaration
A call to arms to governments, Members of Parliament, conservation ...
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The influence of past management of pinewoods on ...
Report written by Richard Worrell and Basil Dunlop.
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The Status of Centaurea cyanus in Britain - DRAFT
An audit of sites in Britain where Centaurea cyanus is thought to have ...
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The wild and wonderful world of Scotland’s ...
Find out about the seaweeds of Scotland.
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The Wild and Wonderful World of Scottish Fungi
A colourful leaflet in a series to enthuse beginners about the fascinating ...
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The wild and wonderful world of Scottish lichens
A colourful leaflet in a series to enthuse beginners about the fascinating ...
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The wild and wonderful world of Scottish mosses, ...
A colourful leaflet in a series to enthuse beginners about the fascinating ...
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The wild and wonderful world of Scottish wild ...
A colourful leaflet to enthuse beginners about Scottish wild flowers.
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Threatened arable plants identification guide
A field guide for identifying threatened plants specific to arable habitats.
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Under Pressure – Climate Change and the ...
What is likely to happen to our wild plants in the event of a warmer ...
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What’s in your pot?
A guide to invasive aquatic plants. Find out which ones to avoid and why.
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone? A Study of Local ...
Full version of Peter Marren's report on the disappearance of once common ...
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Wild plant horizons: taking forward the Global ...
The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) is a worldwide strategy ...