Discover the secrets and beauty of the world's rarest trees in this fantastic book filled with more than 300 color photographs. Forests cover nearly a third of the world's surface, and the trees that make them up include a staggering diversity of more than 60,000 species. Individual trees play specific ecological roles in their unique environments-and they have adapted to thrive on steep mountains, in cloud forests, on dry savannahs, in parched deserts, and in tropical wetlands. Our history, and our future, are interwoven with the trees that define the regions of our green planet. Rare Trees profiles over 60 unique species that are currently endangered-including the most charismatic, fascinating, and downright bizarre examples from all around the globe. Filled with hundreds of color photographs, maps to help readers identify habitats, and accessible and engaging text by tree experts from the Global Trees Campaign, Rare Trees will give readers a new appreciation for the importance of trees and will inspire them to preserve this critical canopy of life. Filled with more than 300 color photographs, Rare Trees is a stunning survey of the world's most threatened trees. Sara Oldfield, OBE, is a botanist and biodiversity consultant and chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature/Species Survival Commission (IUCN/SSN) Global Tree Specialist Group, responsible for promoting and implementing projects to identify and protect globally red-listed tree species. From 2005 to 2015 she was secretary general of Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), and previously global programs director at Fauna & Flora International (FFI). Malin Rivers is the head of conservation prioritization at Botanic Gardens Conservation International. She manages the red list program at BGCI, with its current focus on the Global Tree Assessment. In addition, she is the red list authority coordinator and secretary of the IUCN/SSC Global Tree Specialist Group and chair of the Red List Technical Working Group. She has worked with plant conservation in botanic gardens for over ten years

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