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Plants facing extinction

WUHAN (CHINA): The world's plants face mass extinction if climate change remains unchecked and more efforts are not taken to encourage plant conservation, warned experts on the second day of the Third Global Botanical Gardens Congress in Wuhan, central China, on Tuesday. ``About half of the earth's 400,000 plant species and 100,000 unclassified plant species will be threatened with extinction if the temperature rises by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius in the next 100 years,'' said David Bramwell, director of Jardin Botanical Gardens in Las Palmas, Spain. A recent study indicates that up to 37per cent of all species in these regions will be extinct by 2050, he said. — Xinhua

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