Across the globe, wildlife is in crisis. Insect populations are crashing, bird species are disappearing, and pollinators, the unsung heroes of food production, are vanishing at alarming rates.

In the three weeks before the teeth of earth-moving equipment ripped about 1,000 native plants to shreds, Moore organized a last-minute salvage effort and rescued them.

Native plants attract birds, butterflies, and other wildlife; you can watch it up close in your yard, container or rooftop garden, parks, schools and churchyards. What joy it can bring us!

Habitat-selection concepts have rarely been explicitly used for plants, perhaps because the majority of them are immobile. For plants, habitat selection results from evolutionary adjustment of species ...

In paper published today in Nature Plants, researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, detail for the first time the scale of threatened species that are unable to be conserved in seed banks ...

This article originally appeared on Augusta Chronicle: Fragmented: More Georgia landowners needed to grow native plants, protect native species Native plants are well adapted to local climate, ...