What about rare plants in Britain? What caused their near extinction? What do these plants have to do with environmental protection? What can we do? It’s a great pleasure to have Dr. Fred Rumsey here for a short interview to hear about his experience and his thoughts on these issues.
Dr. Fred Rumsey is a British plant specialist at the Natural History Museum. He is also responsible for ‘dealing with plant identification enquiries within the IAS team.
He told me that he has a great interest in plants and Plant conservation. Therefore, since the launch of the UK biodiversity action plan, he has been actively involved in it, including serving as a member of the steering group of the project, and working on the compilation plan of England Vascular Plant red-list, England Bryophyte red-list.
He showed me pictures and distributions of some rare plants. “Some plants are very small, even only 1mm, so you will miss them if you are not careful.” In order to record these rare plants, he visited many places. “it is a hard work, and many times it may be hard for nothing.”
Dr. Rumsey recommended the state of nature website to me, where he said he could see the changes of rare plants in the UK and some other accurate data. I summarized the following:
When it comes to the causes of rare plants, Dr. Rumsey said, “For the most part, plants become rarer because the habitats have been destroyed or damaged by man’s activities. The pollution causes loss of land, but also lots more fertilizers which are getting into the habitats which are otherwise sensitive.”
Dr. Rumsey agrees that this is closely related to environmental protection，“Because rare wild plants are important sources of biodiversity. It’s about the nature, the material basis for human survival.”
He thinks this is not a matter of one person or several people, but all people should care. “We need to make decisions now about what we do to enable protection of what we want, what we consider important for the environment.” And he hopes the work he dose can be used by people to inform those decisions.
So, what can ordinary people do like me?
Dr. Rumsey said: “just small things could be changing there. That could be eating habits change or using different transport, also could be attending a speech to begin to know about these, we will have a voice and if who have voices come together, then we start to change”.
He said he felt really encouraging to see more and more young people like me who care passionately about the nature.
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