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“The Disenfranchised Poor” by Sandra D. Lynn

Reprinted from Desert Voices, newsletter of the Chihuahuan Desert Conservation Alliance

According to Sandra D. Lynn’s article “The Disenfranchised Poor,” plants deserve as much of our attention as animals do.  The word “nature” for most people means animals, not plants. From popular nature programs on television to public funding for the protection and recovery of endangered species, plants get short shrift, although all life depends on them. “Three times as many plants are considered ‘endangered’ as animals,” yet plants are only half as likely to receive protection. Conservationists need to remember that all living things deserve to be considered equitably in decisions about the use of public funds, that animals cannot be protected apart from the plants they depend on, and that plants are “beautiful, complex, fascinating—and sexy, too.”

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