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Gorilla-based tourism is a valuable source of revenue and is monitored to ensure that it benefits local communities as well as supporting gorilla conservation. Credit: Juan Pablo Moreiras/FFI.

Gorilla-based tourism is a valuable source of revenue and is monitored to ensure that it benefits local communities as well as supporting gorilla conservation. Credit: Juan Pablo Moreiras/FFI.

Fauna & Flora International (FFI) is the world's longest established international conservation body, founded over 100 years ago.

Renowned for its science-based approach, FFI has pioneered sustainable conservation work that tackles problems holistically, providing solutions that simultaneously help wildlife, humans and the environment.

FFI acts to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, are based on sound science and take account of human needs.

 

New report: 50% of magnolia species threatened with extinction

Magnolias may be blooming in Britain’s gardens this spring, but in the wild it’s an altogether different story. Over half the world’s magnolia species are facing extinction in their native forest habitats, according to an authoritative new report from two leading plant conservation organisations.

The Red List of the Magnoliaceae, published jointly today by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) and Fauna & Flora International (FFI), through the Global Trees Campaign (GTC), identifies 131 wild magnolias as being in danger of extinction, from a global total of 245 species.

Click here to read the full press release and download a copy of the report