Thanks a lot, Rawat ji -- With regards, J. M. Garg On Mon, 27 Jun, 2022, 6:15 am J.M. Garg, <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> During the last few days I downloaded the list of threatened species of > India from IUCN Red List 2021-3 <https://www.iucnredlist.org/>. These > species were looked in the eFI database and the pages of all species > represented in eFI are linked with their name in the list of threatened > species of India. I did this exercise in 2017 also which is available under > the page Threatened Flora of India > <https://efloraofindia.com/2019/09/28/threatened-flora-of-india/>. During > the last 5 years our coverage of threatened species has increased from 93 > species to 133 species (under EW, CR, EN, VU categories) which is truly > appreciable. We now have more than 28% threatened flora of India > represented in eFI. 28% seems low but we have to remember that threatened > species are not common in nature and rarely spotted. Despite the rarity, > our contributing members have photographed them and uploaded them here. No > other database in India shows this much larger fraction of threatened > species of India. > > Now the page (Threatened Flora of India > <https://efloraofindia.com/2019/09/28/threatened-flora-of-india/>) may be > updated, OR the new information (attached here) may be displayed at a > different page to show how our coverage of threatened species has increased > during the last five years. > > In the recent list of threatened species of India categories of some > earlier threatened species have been changed based on new information > available. The species* Madhuca insignis > <https://efloraofindia.com/2011/03/12/madhuca-insignis/> * is one > example, which was earlier considered as EXTINCT, is now in CRITICALLY > ENDANGERED category. > > > > Regards. > > > > DSRawat, Pantnagar > > -- > With regards, > J. M. Garg > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "eFloraofIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CA%2BiuSFAxSRmTNs_AcXdkoz4S6-dYntuU5YdN_wbax3zAQ4c4QQ%40mail.gmail.com.