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    GOING GOING, GONE

    Sep 06, 2019 4 minutes
    Interview Laura Nicolson
    Photography
    Lily Bungay

    Rafaël Govaerts’ day job is a botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He’s also an international plant hunter in his spare time. Sometimes the difference between work and hobby is hard to see. Over the past three decades, his research and passion has taken him around the world and seen him compile the first global list of at-risk and extinct plants, which laid the foundation for a bracing new study on the rate of plant extinctions.

    The study, compiled by scientists at Kew (including Rafaël) and Stockholm University, reports that 571 plants have completely disappeared from the wild between 1753 and 2017. That’s 500 times the baseline extinction rate

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