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Comiswn ar gyfer Coedwigaeth newydd: Adfywio coetiroedd Cymru
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2012
Mae’r adroddiad hwn yn ymdrin â rheoli coedwigoedd yng Nghymru fel bod pobl a bywyd gwyllt yn elwa, fel ei gilydd.
Gweledigaeth Plantlife yw sicrhau ystâd o goetir ar hyd a lled y wlad lle mae cymhellion economaidd yn bodoli i annog perchnogion coedwigoedd preifat i chwarae rhan mwy gweithgar ac ymarferol wrth reoli eu coedwigoedd – a lle mae coedwigoedd sydd dan berchnogaeth gyhoeddus yn cael eu rheoli i’r safon uchaf posib er mwyn creu tirweddau hardd sydd â chyfoeth o fywyd gwyllt.
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Forestry Recommissioned: Revitalising the woodlands of Wales
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2012
This report is about managing woodlands in Wales so that they deliver for us and for our wildlife.
Plantlife’s vision is for a woodland estate where there are economic incentives for private woodland owners to manage their woods more actively – and where woodlands in public ownership are managed to the highest standard to deliver to the public beautiful landscapes rich in wildlife.
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Scotland’s Atlantic Woodland
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2011
A briefing sheet to help manage Scotland's Atlantic woods.
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Scotland’s Pinewoods
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2011
A briefing sheet to help manage Scotland's native and Caledonian pinewoods.
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Scotland’s High Mountains
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2011
A briefing sheet to help manage Scotland's upland habitats.
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Machair Grassland
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2011
A briefing sheet to help manage Scotland's machair grassland - a unique mosaic of different habitats that include beach, sand dunes, dune slacks, pasture, marshes, ditches and lochs.
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Trees of Open Habitats
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2011
A briefing sheet to help manage trees in habitats where sunlight is plentiful such as open wood pasture, waysides, parklands, farmland, churchyards, orchards and gardens.
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Plantlife Scotland Newsletter 2012
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2012
The sixth annual newsletter for Plantlife Scotland members and volunteers, where you can find out more about our activities over the last year, events for 2011, new projects and activities and ways to get involved in Plantlife surveys and campaigns.
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2010 Plantlife Annual Review
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2011
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A Bryophyte Red Data List for Wales
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This report presents the results of a comprehensive analysis of the current status of bryophytes in Wales using the updated IUCN criteria.
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Lichens of Scottish pinewoods: Guide 2
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2009
A guide to crustose and scaly lichens on pine, birch and alder, and lichens on trees with less acidic bark.
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Lichens of Scottish pinewoods: Guide 1
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2009
A guide to leafy and shrubby lichens on pine, birch, alder and deadwood.
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Wild plant horizons: taking forward the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation 2011-2020
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2012
The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) is a worldwide strategy seeks to halt the continuing loss of plant diversity.
In 2010, the UK Government signed up to a new set of 16 targets, agreed at Nagoya, Japan, as part of the Conference of the Parties for the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Click below to download a document that suggests how these can be taken forward.
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Quality and quantity: revitalising Scotland’s woodlands
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2011
There is much debate about the future of Scotland’s woodland. A great deal of it to date has been about who should own our woods and forests and how extensive they should be.
This report shifts the focus to managing our woodlands so that they deliver for us and for our wildlife.
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Forestry Recommissioned: bringing England’s woodlands back to life
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2011
Plantlife’s report, revealing that a lack of management has led to darker woods where plants cannot flourish and, as they have declined, so has the wildlife that depends on them.
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Managing uplands for juniper
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2011
Along with Scots pine and yew, juniper is one of Britain’s three native conifers.
This publication gives advice on managing it in upland habitats.
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The wild and wonderful world of Scottish wild flowers
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2011
A colourful leaflet to enthuse beginners about Scottish wild flowers.
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Breaking new ground for juniper: A management handbook for lowland England
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This guide contains detailed advice to aid the recovery of juniper (Juniperus communis subsp. communis) across the chalk and limestone country of lowland England.
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Lesser butterfly-orchid / Tegeirian Llydanwyrdd Bach management booklet
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2011
Advice for how to manage your land for the lesser butterfly-orchid/Tegeirian Llydanwyrdd Bach (Platanthera bifolia).
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Managing Scotland’s pinewoods for their wild flowers
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2011
This booklet provides land managers with advice on managing native and semi-natural pinewoods for their vascular plant communities, based on recent and ongoing management trials. It focuses especially on the characteristic pinewood herbs.
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Important Plant Areas and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
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2011
This factsheet outlines the conservation issues and threats facing agricultural (grassland and arable) habitats and species in the Important Plant Area network and how the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is currently failing to meet these.
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Important Plant Areas, Water and Wetlands
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2011
This factsheet outlines the conservation issues and threats facing water and wetland habitats and species in the Important Plant Area network.
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Important Plant Areas and Forestry
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2011
This factsheet outlines the conservation issues and threats facing forest habitats and species in the Important Plant Area network.
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Important Plant Areas and Climate Change
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2011
This factsheet presents key information on the threats to Important Plant Areas posed by climate change and the potential they possess as an essential part of mitigation efforts.
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2010 Plantlife Annual Report and Financial Statements
This report contains the following: Trustees’ (Directors’) Report, Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities, Auditors Report, Statement of Financial Activities, Summary Income and Expenditure Account and Balance Sheet for 2010. The report is also available on request by contacting the Plantlife head office in Salisbury.
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Important Plant Areas of the south and east Mediterranean region
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2011
Important Plant Areas (IPA) are internationally important sites for wild plants and fungi, identified at national level using standard criteria.
This report describes a rapid assessment of Important Plant Areas in the south and east Mediterranean.
The link below is for an English language version. A version in French can be downloaded by clicking here and a version in Arabic here.
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Management of woodland plants in Caledonian pine woodland
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2011
This report describes a conservation management framework for Caledonian pinewoods based on the Important Plant Area (IPA) concept.
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Identification and Conservation of Important Plant Areas for Medicinal Plants in the Himalaya
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2009
This is the report of the project and Regional Workshop “Identification and Conservation of Important Plant Areas for Medicinal Plants in the Himalaya” held in Kathmandu, Nepal on September 19–22 2006.
The project brings together two of Plantlife International’s programmes, on ‘Important Plant Areas’ (IPAs) and ‘Plant Conservation and Livelihoods’. The project is the first time that IPAs have been identified in the Himalaya.
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Looking after bryophytes and lichens of Scotland’s oceanic ravines
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This leaflet explains how to identify if you have an oceanic ravine in your care, describes the habitat and the species that can be found there, and their national and international conservation importance. At the back of the leaflet is a full list of actions you can take to ensure their continuing survival.
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Looking after bryophytes in Scotland’s springs and flushes
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2010
This leaflet will help land managers and conservationists who manage habitats that contain springs and flushes. It describes some common mosses and liverworts (collectively known as bryophytes) that you might find, as well as some rare and protected species and outlines the ecology and threats to these species. Recommendations are given for land management to benefit these beautiful little plants.
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Bryophytes of Scotland’s pine woodlands
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2010
This Plantlife field guide will help those who want to go a little further in identifying the carpets of mosses and liverworts that are such an obvious feature of many of our Scots pine woodlands. This guide deals with some of the typical species and a few of the more uncommon and rare species of particular habitats within the woodland. It is focused largely on the woodlands of the east of Scotland, so, for the pine woods of the west, particularly Beinn Eighe, the guides for Atlantic woodland would be more useful.
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Bryophytes of Scotland’s oceanic heath
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2010
This Plantlife field guide will help those who want to go a little further in identifying the carpets of mosses and liverworts that make our western hills such special places. This guide deals with species making up Scotland’s oceanic heath, a globally rare plant community.
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A Lichen Red Data List for Wales
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2011
This report presents the results of a comprehensive analysis of the current status of lichens in Wales using the updated IUCN criteria.
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Plantlife Scotland Newsletter 2011
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2011
The fifth annual newsletter for Plantlife Scotland members and volunteers, where you can find out more about our activities over the last year, events for 2011, new projects and activities and ways to get involved in Plantlife surveys and campaigns.
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The Wild and Wonderful World of Scottish Fungi
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A colourful leaflet in a series to enthuse beginners about the fascinating world of fungi.
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What’s in your pot?
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2009
A guide to invasive aquatic plants.
Find out which ones to avoid and why.
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Important Plant Areas in the UK: technical report
2010
This document summarises the steps that have been taken to select Important Plant Areas in the UK.
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Developing IPA boundaries in the UK
2008
Since publication of the UK IPA list in July 2007, much thought and discussion has gone into how we can delineate IPA boundaries on the ground.
This paper summarises where we are today.
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Here today, here tomorrow?
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2010
Horizon scanning for invasive non-native plants.
Invasive non-native species are considered to pose one of the greatest threats to biodiversity and the economic-wellbeing of our planet. The problems caused by invasive non-native plants can affect our lives, for example by reducing crop yields, producing skin-burning sap or increasing risks of flooding.
In this report we profile a selection of 20 Sites In Peril – areas that are threatened, or already being damaged, by invasive non-native plants - and describe research undertaken to try to identify which non-native plants may become invasive in the future.
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Management of woodland plants in Atlantic broadleaved woodland
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May 2010
Atlantic woodland is one of six priority habitats under Plantlife Scotland’s “Back From the Brink” programme.
This report describes a 'conservation management framework' for Atlantic woodland based on the Important Plant Area (IPA) concept.
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Arable Plants in Scotland: a management guide
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2010
This management guide aims to help farmers and land managers across Scotland who would like to do more to help arable plants.
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Plant Diversity Challenge: 3 years - 16 targets - 1 challenge
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2007
A 2007 review of progress in the UK towards the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation.
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Plantlife Supporter Member Regulations
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Plantlife Memorandum and Articles of Association
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Landscaping without harmful invasive plants
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A guide to plants you can use in landscaping in place of invasive non-native species.
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Gardening Without Harmful Invasive Plants
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2010
A guide to plants you can use in your garden in place of invasive non-native species.
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Keeping ponds and aquaria without harmful invasive plants
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2010
A guide to plants you can use in place of invasive non-native species in ponds and aquaria.
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Bryophytes of Atlantic Woodlands Guide 2: Ravines
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2010
This Plantlife field guide will help those who want to go a little further in identifying the carpets of mosses and liverworts that make our Atlantic woodlands such special places.
This guide deals with species in burns and ravines.
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Bryophytes of Atlantic Woodlands Guide 1: Woodland
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2010
This Plantlife field guide will help those who want to go a little further in identifying the carpets of mosses and liverworts that make our Atlantic woodlands such special places.
This guide deals with species in woodland.
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Fungi of Scottish Pinewoods: Guide 2
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2010
A guide to the rarer fruiting fungi of Scotland's pinewoods.
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Fungi of Scottish Pinewoods: Guide 1
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A guide to widespread and common fungi found in Scotland's pinewoods.
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A sustainable future for Europe: The European Strategy for Plant Conservation 2008–2014
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2008
This Strategy brings coordination and a clear focus to a complex set of issues, outlining the many activities which exist or are planned to halt the loss of our plant diversity in Europe.
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Ragwort: Friend or Foe?
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2008
Plantlife has joined forces with the British Horse Society and Butterfly Conservation to launch a new guidance leaflet on managing common ragwort. This yellow flower is contentious, being poisonous to horses, livestock and humans, but also a valuable native plant.
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Effects of land management on the location and status of Spiranthes romanzoffiana in Scotland
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2005
A desk review and evaluation of the available evidence.
Report written by Dr. Scott McG. Wilson MICFor in 2005 (20 pages).
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The wild and wonderful world of Scotland’s seaweeds
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2010
Find out about the seaweeds of Scotland.
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Lichens and bryophytes of Atlantic woodland in Scotland
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2010
An introduction to their ecology and management.
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Looking after Scotland’s oceanic heath
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2010
This habitat is also known as ‘Scottish liverwort heath’, the ‘Northern hepatic mat’ or the ‘oceanic-montane heath’.
What makes it special is its ground layer of mosses that only thrive in the oceanic climate of the hills in the west of Scotland. This booklet is a guide to managing this unique habitat.
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Managing trees in Scotland’s open habitats for lichens, bryophytes and fungi
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2010
This booklet will help land managers and conservationists who manage parkland and trees in open habitats.
These trees are not only part of our well-loved natural and cultural heritage but provide important habitat for many organisms, including threatened species of international importance.
This booklet explores the ecology of lichens, bryophytes and fungi that grow on these trees. It looks at threats to their survival and outlines management recommendations to encourage and conserve these special communities.
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2009 Plantlife Annual Report and Financial Statements
This report contains the following: Trustees’ (Directors’) Report, Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities, Auditors Report, Statement of Financial Activities, Summary Income and Expenditure Account and Balance Sheet. The report is also available on request by contacting the Plantlife head office in Salisbury.
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Important Plant Areas around the world
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May 2010
Successes & case studies in implementing the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC). Target 5 of the CBD Global Strategy for Plant Conservation.
The projects highlighted in this report illustrate the range of organisations and individuals who are taking the lead in identifying and conserving the world’s most important sites for plants . We hope that these case studies will inspire others to identify their IPAs and encourage governments and donors to play their part in conserving the diversity of plant life of earth and all the other forms of life which reply on wild plants and their habitats.
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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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Juniper survey
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2010
Juniper was once a common shrub in Britain. Traditionally, it was valued as a source of firewood, as a building material and for its medicinal qualities. Today it is used as a food and drink
flavouring, particularly in gin. Nevertheless, it is one of Britain’s most threatened species.
By taking part in this survey, you will help us to establish the facts about juniper decline.
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2008 Plantlife Annual Report and Financial Statements
This report contains the following: Trustees’ (Directors’) Report, Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities, Auditors Report, Statement of Financial Activities, Summary Income and Expenditure Account and Balance Sheet. The report is also available on request by contacting the Plantlife head office in Salisbury.
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2008 Plantlife Annual Review
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2009
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Datganiad y Galdrist Rithiol
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2010
An bilingual Welsh and English version of the Ghost Orchid Declaration. A call to arms to governments, Members of Parliament, conservation organisations and the general public to ensure that we do not lose any more of our irreplaceable flora.
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Planta Europa Critical Targets 2005-7
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2005
The Planta Europa Network, at its fourth Planta Europa conference in Valencia, Spain, September 2004, set itself a challenging agenda to be achieved by 2007. Seven ‘Critical Targets’ were identified which are to provide the framework for Planta Europa activities for the next three years.
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Review of the European Plant Conservation Strategy: Progress and challenges 2007
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2007
Full term review of the European Plant Conservation Strategy.
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Mid-term review of the European Plant Conservation Strategy
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2004
This mid-term review of the EPCS was undertaken by the fourth Planta Europa conference in Valencia, Spain, September 2004.
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Regional workshop on Important Plant Areas and standardization of habitat classification in Asia
2004
South-east Asia summary report.
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Important Plant Areas in Southern Africa (Draft document - under consultation)
2004
One of the outcomes of an IPA workshop held in Pretoria National Botanical Gardens was to determine criteraia for the identification of IPAs in southern Africa. Thios document summarises the information that was discussed.
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Defining Important Plant Areas in the Mediterranean region
2003
Regional workshop report.
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Identifying Important Plant Areas: A site selection manual for Europe.
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2002
This manual describes the aims and background of the IPA Programme, the role of IPAs in global and European conservation, and the organisational structure of the IPA Secretariat and the IPA national teams. It outlines the IPA criteria, the methodology for applying the criteria and the guiding principles for selecting sites. The data collection process is described and the information that should be recorded about each IPA is given in the IPA questionnaire.
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Identifying and protecting the world’s most Important Plant Areas
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This guide provides information on Plantlife International’s Important Plant Area (IPA) programme, and its contribution to the CBD Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. It describes how Important Plant Areas are identified around the world, how they can be protected and the materials that are available to assist this process.
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Important Plant Areas in Central and Eastern Europe
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In 2002, Plantlife International and partners in seven countries in central and eastern Europe received funding from the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Food Quality through the PIN/MATRA Funds of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, to co-ordinate the compilation of Important Plant Area (IPA) inventories in seven central and eastern European countries. The project was completed in 2005 with the publication of the report Important Plant Areas in central and eastern Europe.
The publication contains details of the sites, threatened species and habitats, threats and protection status, and provides an analysis of the most relevant policy areas for plant conservation in Europe.
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Conserving Important Plant Areas: Investing in the green gold of south-east Europe
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South-east Europe is one of the most diverse regions in Europe for wild plants and their habitats, which occur in a mosaic of mountains, forest, grasslands, river gorges, lakes and coastlines. This is the full report on Important Plant Areas in south east Europe
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European Plant Conservation Strategy
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2002
In June 2001, the Planta Europa network mobilised all its plant conservation expertise to develop a master plan with concrete and achievable targets to halt the loss of plant diversity in Europe by 2007.
As a result Planta Europa and the Council of Europe developed the European Plant Conservation Strategy (EPCS) to provide a framework for wild-plant conservation in Europe.
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Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
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In April 2002, the Global Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC).
The strategy was groundbreaking in that it is the first time that the CBD set quantitative, although non-binding, conservation targets and a deadline for their attainment (2010). The GSPC is therefore one of the outstanding achievements of the worldwide conservation movement.
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Plantlife Scotland newsletter 2010
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2010
The fourth annual newsletter for Plantlife Scotland members and volunteers, where you can find out more about our activities over the last year, events for 2010, new projects and activities and ways to get involved in Plantlife surveys and campaigns.
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A Vascular Plant Red Data List for Wales
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2008
This groundbreaking report is the first comprehensive analysis of vascular plant flora in Wales using international criteria and gives an up-to-date picture of the state of wild plants in Wales, including threat status and decline.
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Scotland’s rare tooth fungi: An introduction to their identification, ecology and management
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2008
Leaflet with information about this group of fungi, and advice to landowners and managers about looking after them.
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Ragwort: Friend or foe?
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2008
Plantlife has joined forces with the British Horse Society and Butterfly Conservation to launch a new guidance leaflet on managing common ragwort. This yellow flower is contentious, being poisonous to horses, livestock and humans, but also a valuable native plant.
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Pond Alert! Tried and tested
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2008
'Tried and tested' gives useful examples of projects involving pond creation and management which may help you with your pond projects.
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Pond Alert! Problem pond plants
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2007
Avoid these species for the health of your pond and the wider countryside. Also contains advice on what to do if you already have any of these in your garden (6 pages).
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Pond Alert ! Managing your garden pond to protect Scotland’s wildlife
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2006
Guide for gardeners on avoiding invasive garden plants and which are the best native pond plants to buy (6 pages).
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Pond Alert! Labelling
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2007
Find out more about the importance of accurate labelling, so you know what you are buying. Also includes the 2007 Garden Centre Survey, seeking information on whether garden centres were selling any of 12 specified species. (6 pages).
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Pond Alert! Alternative plants
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2007
Use native plants in your pond for the good of Scotland's wildlife. The leaflet describes some of the attractive pond species that are found in Scotland, and the conditions they require to grow well in the garden pond.
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Pond Alert! Create your own bog garden
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2008
Take a look at this colourful leaflet and see some of the native plants you could use if you create a bog garden by your pond (6 pages).
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Managing your land with fungi in mind
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2001
Guide for landowners on good practice for encouraging fungi on their land. Produced by Plantlife for the Fungus Conservation Forum (4 pages).
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Managing your land for chamomile
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2001
Short non-technical management advice for those with chamomile on their land (4 pages).
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Managing your land for ground pine
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2001
Short non-technical management advice for those with Ground Pine on their land (8 pages).
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Gofalu am fwsogl a llysiau afu prin ar hyd ymylon afonydd a chronfeydd
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2006
In English and Welsh. Bilingual advice to landowners on looking after reservoirs for this group of rare species (6 pages).
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Looking after rare mosses and liverworts beside lakes and reservoirs
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2006
Advice to landowners on looking after reservoirs for this group of rare species (4 pages).
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Looking after rare mosses and liverworts in coastal dune slacks
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2004
Management advice to landowners and managers for looking after rare mosses and liverworts in coastal dunes (6 pages).
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Looking after green shield-moss (Buxbaumia viridis) and other mosses and liverworts on dead wood
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2008
Leaflet with advice to landowners and managers about looking after this species and other rare mosses and liverworts on dead wood.
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Lichens and elm trees
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2005
An introduction to threatened lichen species associated with old elm trees and advice on their management (6 pages).
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Grassland gems: Managing lawns and pastures for fungi
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2003
Short guide on good practice for encouraging fungi on pastures and lawns. Produced by Plantlife for the Fungus Conservation Forum (4 pages).
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Ecology and management of ear-lobed dog-lichen and other lichens of rocky river edges
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2008
A leaflet giving information about Dog-lichens, with advice for landowners and managers.
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Farming for Arable Flowers/Ffermio er iles blodeu tir ar
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2004
Bilingual English and Welsh brochure advising farmers how threatened arable plants species can be protected on their land (12 pages).
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Cryphaea lamyana: Y mwsogl afon lluosffrwyth
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2003
Bilingual advice to landowners on looking after riversides for this rare species and a guide to where it grows and how to spot it (4 pages).
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