“Recovery versus Extinction – Why Local Conservation Efforts Must Drive Global Conservation Initiatives” Center for Plant Conservation National Meeting October 6, 2020

o All the IRC and SER folks, past and present, and all our conservation partners and funders. [...] o All of you attending, and for all that you do to Save Plants! My Neighborhood Rather than focusing on charismatic animals or plants with narrow global ranges, IRC seeks to protect, restore and manage all biodiversity on a regional basis, and to prevent local extinctions of rare plants, animals and ecosystems. [...] Are we in the extinction prevention business? Or the biodiversity recovery business? How do we actually Save Plants? We Must Do Both National and Regional Leadership Since the 1980s National Collection and Participating Institutions Bridge between Local and Global Scales Extinctions, Rarity, and Scale US and Canada Global Assessment: 38 extinct species Regional Assessment: 51 species, 65 taxa IUCN. [...] 2019 Documenting extinctions and rarity since 1996 The Floristic Inventory of South Florida Methods of the FISF • Comprehensive (looks at all species in region) • Collates all available data on conservation areas (published and unpublished, FNAI data, herbarium specimens, field notebooks, personal communications) • Uses NatureServe assessment methods at a regional scale • Filters for rarest specie. [...] texana in NE Florida Known only from the type (Webster & Hatch 1990) Treated as G2, N2, S2 in NatureServe (1999) Not tracked by Florida Natural Areas Inventory Not listed by State of Florida or US FWS Amaranthus floridanus: Last Collected in South Florida in 1985 Treated as G3, N3, S3 in NatureServe (1993) Not tracked by Florida Natural Areas Inventory Not listed by State of Florida or FWS Not on.