Palm trees in Africa are in decline: these botanists made a plan to do something about it

By Fred Stauffer, Curator, Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève (CJBG)
Doudjo Noufou Ouattara, Associate Professor at Université Nangui ABROGOUA, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and Research Associate at the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire specializing in Palms family (Arecaceae), Nangui Abrogoua University
Kifouli Adéoti, Lecturer in the Faculty of Science and Technology, University d'Abomey-Calavi de Bénin

Palms play a vital role in food, culture and livelihoods. A new pan-African network aims to study, protect and conserve the continent’s unique and rare palm trees.

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