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Humanity faces losing around half of all future medicines because so many plants face extinction, according to a new report. Nearly half of all flowering plants on Earth are threatened – some 100,000. As most medicines are based on plant compounds, scientists estimate that because 45 per cent of flowering plants are endangered, it means humans potentially risk losing a large potential source of future medicines. The findings are contained in The State of the World’s Plants and Fungi, a major report by scientists at Kew. The Kew scientists also warn that many plants are going extinct before they have even been discovered. They estimate that three out of four plants yet undiscovered by scien

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