UN global conservation strategy sees headway in protecting plant diversity: report

OTTAWA, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- A new report on the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) suggests that while the 16 targets of the decades-long plan to protect global plant are unlikely to be met, countries have made considerable progress toward achieving many of them, according to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity on Wednesday.

Such progress is the result of actions under the strategy, with several new initiatives developed specifically to address GSPC targets, which include success realized in aligning actions by the world's botanist and plant protection community through a shared set of principles and objectives and the establishment of a World Flora Online and the Global Tree Assessment.