The Future of Plants, with Pete Hollingsworth (RBGE) (Plants and Our Health #9)

Not Another Science Podcast

What will the future of plants look like if currently 2 in 5 are threatened with extinction? That depends on how we act now! Join us as we dive into our last theme of the mini-series, Conserving Plants, with Dr Pete Hollingsworth, Director of Science and Conservation at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Pete shares with us a diversity of ways plants are being conserved that give us hope for safeguarding biodiversity for the future. We also explore how conservation decisions are made, the need to integrate plant conservation with how we live alongside nature, and what you can do to help protect plant life.

‘Plants & Our Health’ is a 10-part miniseries made in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, and kindly supported with funding from the British Ecological Society.

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