State of the World's Plants and Fungi 2023

Our fifth report in the State of the World’s series lays out the current condition of the world’s plants and fungi globally, and is titled 'Tackling the Nature Emergency: Evidence, gaps and priorities'

It is the second report that is accompanied by a full volume of expert-reviewed scientific publications from our partners, the New Phytologist Foundation. Their special collection on 'Global Plant Diversity and Distribution' includes open-access papers published in the journals New Phytologist and Plants, People, Planet. 

In parallel, an open-access, global review of fungal diversity is published in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources.

Drawing upon the expertise of 200 contributors from more than 100 institutions across 30 countries, the report is a global collaborative effort which takes an in-depth look at the worldwide drivers and patterns of biodiversity, provides new insights into extinction risk, and identifies critical knowledge gaps and how to address them.

In eleven chapters, we present compelling stories of what we can learn from new sources of data and how these learnings can help us foster future research and conservation.