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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1064/plants_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='21 Percent of Worlds Plants Could Disappear' data-article-id='1541'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='7271'>One in five of the world’s plants is currently at risk of disappearing forever.</span> <span data-start-time='7271' data-end-time='13313'>That is what a report by the Royal Botanic Gardens in London says.</span> <span data-start-time='13313' data-end-time='21563'>The report is one of the first to try to describe all the plants known to science.</span> <span data-start-time='21563' data-end-time='30458'>It says scientists have so far identified 391,000 plants.</span> <span data-start-time='30458' data-end-time='38667'>And, it says, more than 80,000 of those are in danger of becoming extinct.</span> <span data-start-time='38667' data-end-time='47438'>The plants are endangered by growing populations and clearing land for agriculture and urban development.</span> <span data-start-time='47438' data-end-time='53313'>Steve Bachman is a researcher with the Royal Botanical Gardens.</span> <span data-start-time='53313' data-end-time='57896'>“There's a lot of mouths to feed in the world now and that's growing, and we need the land.</span> <span data-start-time='57896' data-end-time='70042'>So basically the land’s natural habitat is being converted so that we can have soya plantations, crops, livestock, and as a result, that's really causing species to lose their habitat.”</span> <span data-start-time='70042' data-end-time='75313'>Plants are also threatened by logging and climate change.</span> <span data-start-time='75313' data-end-time='82167'>Scientists say governments should do more to create protected areas.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1064/plants_image.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=6199 data-hint-location='30458' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1064/what_does_extinct_mean.m4a'>What does extinct mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='no longer existing'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1064/support_from_below.m4a'><span>support from below</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1064/many_different_types.m4a'><span>many different types</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1064/relating_to_cities.m4a'><span>relating to cities</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1064/no_longer_existing.m4a'><span>no longer existing</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=6200 data-hint-location='38667' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1064/what_has_caused_the_plants_to_become_endangered.m4a'>What has caused the plants to become endangered?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='growing populations'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1064/disease.m4a'><span>disease</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1064/heat.m4a'><span>heat</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1064/growing_populations.m4a'><span>growing populations</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1064/rain.m4a'><span>rain</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=6201 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1064/one_in_five_of_the_worlds__blank__is_at_risk_of_disappearing_forever.m4a'>One in five of the world's <span class='blank'>plants</span> is at risk of disappearing forever.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='plants'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1064/plants.m4a'><span>plants</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1064/animals.m4a'><span>animals</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1064/jobs.m4a'><span>jobs</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1064/resources.m4a'><span>resources</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button 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