{"id":11191,"date":"2022-02-02T17:30:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought"},"modified":"2022-02-02T18:03:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T18:03:52","slug":"earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought","title":{"rendered":"Earth has more tree species than we thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>There are 14% more tree species than previously thought, according to what researchers are calling the first \u201cscientifically credible\u201d estimate. Of the 73,300 estimated species, the researchers predict there are 9,200 that are yet to be discovered.<\/p>\n

But most rare species are in tropical forests, fast disappearing because of climate change and deforestation. The study is based on a database of tens of millions of trees in more than 100,000 forest plots around the world.<\/p>\n

The researchers used statistical techniques to predict the likely number of tree species, correcting for gaps in existing data. The findings suggest more must be done to protect the incredible life forms needed for food, timber and medicine and to fight climate change by sucking carbon dioxide from the air.<\/p>\n

One in three wild trees face extinction Biodiversity: Why the nature crisis matters, in five graphics Kew scientists name new tree after Leonardo DiCaprio<\/p>\n

Lead researcher Dr Peter Reich, of the University of Minnesota in St Paul, said the findings highlighted the vulnerability of global forest biodiversity.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur data will help us assess where biodiversity is the most threatened,\u201d he told BBC News.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is in the tropics and subtropics of South America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania and those are places where we discovered hotspots of known and unknown rare species.<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowing about these hotspots, hopefully, can help prioritise future conservation efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n

South America \u2013 the continent with the most \u201cmissing\u201d species \u2013 has about 43% of the total number, followed by: Eurasia (22%) Africa (16%) North America (15%)<\/p>\n

Oceania (11%) Diverse natural forests are the most healthy and productive, important to the global economy and to nature. The vast majority are in tropical countries where deforestation is largely driven by:<\/p>\n

growing the ingredients of food eaten in the West, such as beef, palm oil and soy (the last two of these are also used for cattle feed) climate change fires More than 140 international researchers worked on the study, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.<\/p>\n

Dr Yadvinder Malhi, of the University of Oxford, said tropical forests were the \u201cglobal treasure chests of biodiversity\u201d and significant absorbers of carbon dioxide emissions, slowing global warming.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis study shows that tropical forests are even more diverse in their trees than we had previously imagined,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Namibia<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Namibia. There are 14% more tree species than previously thought, according to what researchers are calling the first \u201cscientifically credible\u201d estimate. Of the 73,300 estimated species, the researchers predict there are 9,200 that are yet to be discovered. But most rare species are in tropical forests, fast disappearing because of climate change and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":11190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9,16],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-11191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"\nEarth has more tree species than we thought - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There are 14% more tree species than previously thought, according to what researchers are calling the first \u201cscientific ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Earth has more tree species than we thought\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There are 14% more tree species than previously thought, according to what researchers are calling the first \u201cscientific ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Namibia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-02T17:30:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-02-02T18:03:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/02\/img-61fac769edc56.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"976\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"549\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Earth has more tree species than we thought\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-02T17:30:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-02-02T18:03:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought\"},\"wordCount\":391,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/02\/img-61fac769edc56.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"africa press\",\"Africa Press-Namibia\",\"namibia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"miscellaneous\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought\",\"name\":\"Earth has more tree species than we thought - Namibia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/02\/img-61fac769edc56.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-02T17:30:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-02-02T18:03:52+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"There are 14% more tree species than previously thought, according to what researchers are calling the first \u201cscientific ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/02\/img-61fac769edc56.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/02\/img-61fac769edc56.jpg\",\"width\":976,\"height\":549,\"caption\":\"Earth has more tree species than we thought\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Earth has more tree species than we thought\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/\",\"name\":\"Namibia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Earth has more tree species than we thought - Namibia","description":"There are 14% more tree species than previously thought, according to what researchers are calling the first \u201cscientific ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Earth has more tree species than we thought","og_description":"There are 14% more tree species than previously thought, according to what researchers are calling the first \u201cscientific ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought","og_site_name":"Namibia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-02-02T17:30:48+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-02-02T18:03:52+00:00","og_image":[{"width":976,"height":549,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/02\/img-61fac769edc56.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Earth has more tree species than we thought","datePublished":"2022-02-02T17:30:48+00:00","dateModified":"2022-02-02T18:03:52+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought"},"wordCount":391,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/02\/img-61fac769edc56.jpg","keywords":["africa press","Africa Press-Namibia","namibia"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","miscellaneous","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought","name":"Earth has more tree species than we thought - Namibia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/02\/img-61fac769edc56.jpg","datePublished":"2022-02-02T17:30:48+00:00","dateModified":"2022-02-02T18:03:52+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"There are 14% more tree species than previously thought, according to what researchers are calling the first \u201cscientific ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/02\/img-61fac769edc56.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/02\/img-61fac769edc56.jpg","width":976,"height":549,"caption":"Earth has more tree species than we thought"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/earth-has-more-tree-species-than-we-thought#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Earth has more tree species than we thought"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/","name":"Namibia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}