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Important Plant Areas in Europe 2002-2010: Priority sites for plants and people
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2010
Important Plant Areas (IPAs) are internationally significant sites for wild plants and threatened habitats. Identified at a national level, they provide a framework for implementing target 5 of the CBD Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (ensuring the protection of at least 50% of important areas for plants) and are a vital tool in conserving wild plants and their habitats in situ). IPAs contain over 700 of the most threatened species in Europe and millions of hectares of the most threatened habitats.
Hundreds of botanists, mycologists and plant conservation experts across Europe have been involved in the process of identifying IPAs and the results speak for themselves.
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