Please read below the news on the presentation of the 'Top 50 Threatened Mediterranean Plants', transmetted from the e-bulletin of the IUCN's Species Survival Commission, issued in june 2007:
Top 50 Threatened Mediterranean Plants in Greek and Spanish: An effective tool for raising conservation awareness, The Top 50 Mediterranean Island Plants, has just been translated into Greek and Spanish by the World Conservation Union (IUCN). The Spanish version was officially launched at an event in the Balearic islands on 15 June, and the Greek version, the Union’s first publication in Greek, and will be officially launched on Cyprus on 6 July, at an event to be attended by the Cypriot Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment, Mr Fotis Fotiou.
Top 50 Greek: http://www.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/2005-025-El.pdf
Top 50 Spanish: http://www.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/2005-025-Es.pdf
Medicago citrina (Font Quer) Greuter. ©E. Laguna 2006You can download the initial versions (English and French) from the SSC's website at
The translation into Spanish has been coordinated by Dr Emilio Laguna, who also collaborated in the original version (English) and drafted the sheet for the Valencian-Balearic endemic Medicago citrina, providing information on its protection by means of plant micro-reserves:
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