The effect of Climate Change on wild plants in Europe has been incorporated as a cross-cutting issue in the whole text, objectives and targets of the 2nd European Strategy of Plant Conservation (2008-2013), to be drafted and refined during the next months by the Secretariat of Planta Europa (www.plantaeuropa.org), after the proposals made by the delegates who attended the 5th European Conference on the Conservation of Wild Plants recently cellebrated in Cluj-Napoca (Rumania). The importance of global warming, greenhouse effect and other evidences associated to climate change, where explained by Victoria Chester -see picture-, Chief Executive of Plantlife International (www.plantlife.org.uk), the most important European NGO devoted to the conservation of wild plants and fungi. A time drafted, re-circulated and consultated amongst the Planta Europa's member institutions, the new strategy will be endorsed to the Council of Europe in order to join more efforts and enhance the effectivity of the future actions for plant conservation in Europe.
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