Reminder: If your organization has not yet done so, please consider signing this letter!
ACTION ALERT
ORGANIZATIONS, PLEASE SIGN TO SUPPORT FUNDING PLANT AND ANIMAL CONSERVATION
To all interested groups (environmental, faith, scientific, wildlife, gardening, wildflower, outdoor recreation, wilderness and other organizations):
Please consider signing our letter calling for increased funding for conservation of both plants and animals.
The
letter, written by the Native Plant Conservation Campaign and other national plant conservation organizations, was published in
Science magazine January 17, 2020. It is a response to two important recent biodiversity conservation initiatives. These laudable initiatives call for desperately needed increases in funding for biodiversity conservation. However, the initiatives focus on animals; neither ensures that imperiled plants would also benefit from any expanded funding.
This is not a new phenomenon. Plants have often been overlooked in biodiversity conservation. For this reason, native plant conservation and gardening organizations, including the Native Plant Conservation Campaign, Plant Conservation Alliance Non-Federal Cooperators Committee, Center for Plant Conservation, Botanic Gardens Conservation International United States, and The Garden Club of America drafted a letter (click
here for text) asking that both plant and animal species be explicitly included in biodiversity conservation proposals and initiatives.
The letter does not take a position on any piece of legislation or conservation proposal. It simply asks that both imperiled plants and animals benefit from such initiatives.
Help us demonstrate the breadth and depth of support for increased funding for conservation of all imperiled species!
If your organization has not yet signed this letter, please review it and use this Google form to add your organization’s name.
Thank you,
Emily B. Roberson
