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A new paper in Annals of Botany indicates that watching nature documentaries makes people more interested in plants. Some 40% of plant species are under threat of extinction. Plants that are not directly useful to humans are particularly vulnerable. In the United States, for example, plants receive less than 4% of federal funding for endangered species, despite comprising 57% of the endangered species list.
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