
'Out of 8,000 plant species in Iran, 1,400 of them are seriously on the brink of extinction,' said Mohammad Alamuti, Iran's Secretary of the Coordination
Council of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) on Environment Protection.
He was speaking in a gathering in the city of Qazvin themed the International Day for Biological Diversity.
Alamuti said there are hundreds of thousands of other animal species in the country.
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