Cogoni Donatella, Grace Molly K, Long Barney, Orsenigo Simone, Fenu Giuseppe
Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Cagliari, Via S. Ignazio da Laconi 13, 09123 Cagliari, Italy.
Wadham College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3SZ, UK.
Plants (Basel). 2022 Oct 1;11(19):2592. doi: 10.3390/plants11192592.
In the Mediterranean Basin, a critical focal point for the conservation of plant diversity, there has been a large increase in practical conservation actions for many plant species to prevent extinction and to improve their conservation status; quantifying the effectiveness of these initiatives in reversing species declines is urgently important. In 2021, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) launched a new tool that allows the impact of conservation actions on plant species to be assessed. The Green Status of Species is a new set of metrics under the Red List of Threatened Species that assigns species to recovery categories, complementary to the classic extinction risk categories. Crucially, the Green Status of Species provides methods to evaluate the impact of past conservation, and the potential for future conservation impact, on species status and recovery in a standardized way. Considering the efforts made so far for the conservation of Mediterranean threatened plants, using the Green Status of Species would be highly useful to direct future conservation policies. We, therefore, encourage botanists and practitioners working on threatened plants in the Mediterranean area to use this new assessment tool to inform conservation and recovery programs.
在地中海盆地这个植物多样性保护的关键焦点地区，为防止许多植物物种灭绝并改善其保护状况，实际的保护行动大幅增加；量化这些举措在扭转物种衰退方面的成效迫在眉睫。2021年，国际自然保护联盟（IUCN）推出了一种新工具，可用于评估保护行动对植物物种的影响。物种绿色状态是《濒危物种红色名录》下的一套新指标，它将物种划分到恢复类别，这与经典的灭绝风险类别相辅相成。至关重要的是，物种绿色状态提供了以标准化方式评估过去保护措施对物种状态和恢复的影响以及未来保护措施潜在影响的方法。考虑到目前为保护地中海濒危植物所做的努力，使用物种绿色状态对于指导未来的保护政策将非常有用。因此，我们鼓励在地中海地区从事濒危植物研究的植物学家和从业者使用这一新评估工具，为保护和恢复计划提供参考。
