Impacts of global climate change, habitat loss, and other environmental changes on the world's biota and peoples continue to increase, especially on islands and in high elevation areas. Just as floristic diversity...Impacts of global climate change, habitat loss, and other environmental changes on the world's biota and peoples continue to increase, especially on islands and in high elevation areas. Just as floristic diversity is affected by environmental change, so too are cultural and linguistic diversity. Of the approximately 7000 extant languages in the world, fully 50% are considered to be at risk of extinction, which is considerably higher than most estimates of extinction risks to plants and animals. To maintain the integrity of plant life, it is not enough for botanic gardens to consider solely the effects of environmental change on plants within the context of major conservation strategies such as the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation and the Convention on Biological Diversity. Rather, botanic gardens should actively engage in understanding and communicating the broader impacts of environmental change to biological and cultural diversity.展开更多
The concept of eco-civilisation refers to the need for human affairs to be contained within the limits set by nature.Plants play such fundamental roles in the functioning of ecosystems and economies that due attention...The concept of eco-civilisation refers to the need for human affairs to be contained within the limits set by nature.Plants play such fundamental roles in the functioning of ecosystems and economies that due attention must be given to them for eco-civilisation to be achieved.Species are the basic functional units of the plant world and,taking a long term perspective,their conservation with their genetic diversity should be a primary objective in eco-civilisation construction.However,standard procedures used for plant conservation have met with only limited success.Therefore,plant conservationists need social allies to boost their efforts-referring to elements of society whose primary interests in eco-civilisation construction are different,but whose efforts,if successful,will bring benefits to plant conservation too.Potential allies can be identified using an ecosystem system services framework showing how benefits received from the delivery of ecosystem services overlap with those that favour conservation of plant diversity.The concept of eco-civilisation was adopted officially in China in 2014 as a principle guiding its future development.A project at Ludian,Yunnan Province,is used to show the relationships between an ecosystem services framework and a conservation initiative.展开更多
文摘Impacts of global climate change, habitat loss, and other environmental changes on the world's biota and peoples continue to increase, especially on islands and in high elevation areas. Just as floristic diversity is affected by environmental change, so too are cultural and linguistic diversity. Of the approximately 7000 extant languages in the world, fully 50% are considered to be at risk of extinction, which is considerably higher than most estimates of extinction risks to plants and animals. To maintain the integrity of plant life, it is not enough for botanic gardens to consider solely the effects of environmental change on plants within the context of major conservation strategies such as the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation and the Convention on Biological Diversity. Rather, botanic gardens should actively engage in understanding and communicating the broader impacts of environmental change to biological and cultural diversity.
文摘The concept of eco-civilisation refers to the need for human affairs to be contained within the limits set by nature.Plants play such fundamental roles in the functioning of ecosystems and economies that due attention must be given to them for eco-civilisation to be achieved.Species are the basic functional units of the plant world and,taking a long term perspective,their conservation with their genetic diversity should be a primary objective in eco-civilisation construction.However,standard procedures used for plant conservation have met with only limited success.Therefore,plant conservationists need social allies to boost their efforts-referring to elements of society whose primary interests in eco-civilisation construction are different,but whose efforts,if successful,will bring benefits to plant conservation too.Potential allies can be identified using an ecosystem system services framework showing how benefits received from the delivery of ecosystem services overlap with those that favour conservation of plant diversity.The concept of eco-civilisation was adopted officially in China in 2014 as a principle guiding its future development.A project at Ludian,Yunnan Province,is used to show the relationships between an ecosystem services framework and a conservation initiative.
