A partnership project for a new Red List of the Italian Flora

Abstract

The IUCN Red Lists assessment provides an internationally accepted system to verify the extinction risk of species. Working Groups of the Italian Botanical Society have recently discussed the importance of producing a reliable list of species at the national level. This list could be the starting point for future in situ and ex situ plant conservation activities.

Key words:

• Geographic range
• IUCN criteria and categories
• legal protection
• precautionary principle
• regional level
• threatened plants

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Prof. Carlo Blasi (University of Rome “La Sapienza”) for his support to this paper and, most of all, the people involved in this project.