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Article: THE LESS-PROTECTED KINGDOM ENDANGERED PLANTS CONCERN SCIENTISTS.(Local)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 15, 1990
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Byline: Phil Brown Staff writer
We in the animal kingdom tend to look down our noses and snouts and beaks at plants.
We trample them, break them, burn them, pull them up, mow them down, bulldoze them under and douse them with poison.
It's no wonder that so many plants are vanishing, not just in tropical rain forests but across the United States.
In New York state, for example, more than 300 plants are classified as endangered, threatened or rare - about 10 percent of the species.
Although many plants have always been scarce in New York, scores of others are victims of development, agriculture, pollution and other human ...