Endangered plant life

This paper discusses ways and means of more effective action, on an international scale, for the protection of endangered plant life, and shows how, in places where people have become aware of possessing spectacular or unique examples of plant life, they have often added to amenities around sacred places and created inviolate parts of the world's heritage. Good results for conservation of representative areas have been reached locally through improved attitudes towards rational land-use planning, great caution in the employment of herbicides and pesticides, recognition in forestry of the need for a systems planning for natural areas, and awareness that the great diversity of the green plant cover, of flowers and trees, is among the most delightful features helping to keep the Earth as a livable and beautiful environment. Plant protection can be a very good and profitable way to promote local tourism.