small mustardlike plant of Oregon; a threatened species.
Loss of habitats is behind 80% of threatened species, the report claims.
Home to 52 threatened species, including the rare mountain gorilla, Rwanda is showing how environmental sustainability can be woven into the fabric of a country's economic growth.
AS OLD hands tell it, protecting a threatened species used to be a relatively straightforward affair at the Convention on Trade in Endangered species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
At least 5% of the currently threatened species now have stable or rising populations, many of which are the focus of huge conservation efforts.
They don't worry about their future, even though they're legally a threatened species and their little estuary is literally in the shadow of the massive 500-ft. stacks of a power plant.
