2017/03/01 by Ashlin Munsamy, Yougasphree Naidoo · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Botanical Research and Applications
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2017.01.134
openalex publication_date 2017/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/02
In 2009, South Africa succeeded to complete a comprehensive national plant Red List, a global first for a mega-diverse county.This was achieved through the use of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List Categories and Criteria.As new information relating to taxonomic circumscription, distribution, population size, and threats to species become available, species' Red List status often need to be re-evaluated, and newly described species need to be assessed and added to the Red List.Work on the Red List of South African plants therefore continues, and updates are published annually online at redlist.sanbi.org.The conservation status of plant species are widely used by government agencies and private-sector organizations in development planning, environmental impact assessments, conservation, and protected area expansion plans.Outcomes of assessments include species that are being assessed, added to the Red List for the first time, and those species being reassessed and moved into a different category of threat.Due to the significant amount of plants species the assessments are based on priority scale that gives precedence to species in areas under threat, species that are newly described and those species with new field information.