According to a new assessment issued on September 1, 2021, 469 of India's 2,603 tree species (or 18%) are threatened with extinction. There are approximately 650 indigenous tree species found nowhere else in the world in the country.

The majority of tree species in the Palearctic and Nearctic (North America) regions are not endangered.

There are 58,497 tree species on the planet. With 23,631 tree species, the Neotropics (Central and South America) have the most diversity.

The Indo-Malayan region comes in second with 13,739 species, followed by the Afrotropics with 9,237 species. The Nearctic and Oceania have the smallest tree populations.

The researchers discovered that 142 tree species have gone extinct, 17,510 (or 29.9%) are threatened, 4,099 (or 7.1%) are possibly threatened, 24,255 (or 41.5%) are not threatened, 7,700 (or 13.2%) are data deficient, and 4,790 (or 8.2%) have not been examined.

There were also 27 countries with no endangered tree species.

The Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which will be published in 2020, will catalogue the greatest risks to trees around the world.

Agriculture accounts for 29%, logging for 27%, livestock farming for 14%, residential and commercial development for 13%, fire and fire suppression for 13%, energy production and mining for 9%, wood and pulp plantations for 6%, invasive and other problematic species for 5%, and climate change for 5%. (four per cent).

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