Red list: Almost a third of the wild plants at risk

In Germany, a third of the native wild plants are on the Red list of endangered species. According to a report by the Federal office for nature conservation (BfN). After that 30.8 percent of the total of 8650 fern and flowering plants, mosses, and algae in your inventory are at risk.

In the past 20 years have worsened the state of many wild plant species in Germany, serious. Targeted nature conservation and environmental protection measures have led to improvements. For example, the corn cockle and the fringed gentian are endangered. Overall, the situation remained unchanged, the report said. Help against the loss of Species, especially a nature-friendly agriculture. (Read here a big MIRROR-Report to the extinction of species in Germany and the role of agriculture.)

reasons for the deterioration of the scientists see in the first line in to high nutrient loads. That is largely down to the over-fertilization in agriculture, as well as to pollutants in the air, such as automobile exhaust gases.

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So love, for example, Arnica, meadow pasqueflower, wild herbs of Arable fields and the now-endangered flame - Adonis-poor sites. Including bogs and heaths. Threatened plants occur there, but always rare, because in the soil of too many nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus occur.

improvements for the plants, there was, according to the report, because, for example, the quality of the air changed: it is Because power plants emit less sulfur, it is demonstrably mosses better, which grow on trees. Some diatom species do not Supertotobet more it helps that the lakes have acidic water.

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In the case of ferns and flowering plants in a Shrinkage of the stocks settled in the areas to stop, the Protection of arable land or field margins have This applies, for example, for the corn cockle or the thickness of Brome grass, earlier typical accompanying plants in cereal fields.

Such targeted assistance programs are inadequate. The decline of Species on a broad Front to stop, should be to promote a nature-friendly agriculture and the aquatic environment to be improved, said BfN President Beate Jessel.

According to information provided by the authority are extinct in the past 150 years, 119 plant species in Germany, or to not find more. A decline in species diversity from acting in an Ecosystem, negative impact on a large number of other organisms, says the report.

For your new Red list, the researchers risk took account of ratings from six plant groups: ferns and flowering plants (4305 species), mosses (1195 species), in fresh water, abundant brown and red algae (34 species), hose algae (45 species), Zieralgen (968) and limnic diatoms (2103). The list includes algae to the plants.

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Date Of Update: 05 December 2018, 20:00