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Mission to protect rare and threatened flora
October 7 , 2023
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- Tamil Nadu, started a mission to save some of the rare, endangered and threatened plants, of which many are endemic to the State.
- More than 30 taxonomists of premier institutions in the country carried out an assessment of threat to the State’s flora and came out with a list of 25 plants.
- The taxonomists initially shortlisted 100 plants for the exercise.
- Some of the species are fewer than 500 or 1,000 individuals left in the wild.
- The remaining plants in the list of 100 will continue to be in the reckoning.
- Three species that have come up in the list — Dysoxylum malabaricum, Coscinium fenestratum and Myristica malabarica — are assessed to be over-exploited for their medicinal values.
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