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Environment
Cornelia Sattler, Research Fellow in Ecology, Macquarie University

Invisible losses: thousands of plant species are missing from places they could thrive – and humans are the reason

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If you go walking in the wild, you might expect that what you’re seeing is natural. All around you are trees, shrubs and grasses growing in their natural habitat.

But there’s something here that doesn’t add up. Across the world, there are large areas of habitat which would suit native plant species just fine. But very often, they’re simply absent.

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