“That’s big time,” says botanist Kenneth Wood of the Hawaii-based nonprofit National Tropical Botanical Garden. Working alongside Hawaii’s Plant Extinction Prevention Program ...

The identification of IPAs will enable effective conservation ... This project will extend Kew’s successful Tropical Important Plant Areas (TIPAs) initiative to the biodiversity hotspots of Ethiopia.

Consequently, there is a great need to identify important areas that most need protection and conservation. Tropical Important Plant Areas (TIPAs) are target sites for plant and habitat conservation, ...