# Future Medicines May Be Threatened by Plant Extinction, Report Warns

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/future-medicines-may-be-threatened-by-plant-extinction-report-warns/
- Published: 2023-10-14T09:30:23-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: Fire burns in a deforested section along the Interoceanic Highway in the Amazon lowlands on November 16, 2013, in Madre de Dios region, Peru. Photo credit: Mario Tama / Getty Images. Article by  Zane McNeill. Truthout – October 11, 2023. Forty-five percent of the world’s known flowering plants and 68 percent of cycads, or cone-bearing plants, are at risk of extinction, a new report warns. “We’re looking at over 100,000 species that are threatened — that’s more than the total number of species of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, all of our vertebrates put together,” said Matilda Brown, […] mycologyClick here to view original web page at truthout.org