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Botanists Vote to Remove Apartheid Slur from Plant Species Names in Africa
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Botanists Vote to Remove Apartheid Slur from Plant Species Names in Africa

Over 200 plants will have their species name changed to remove an offensive South African apartheid-era racial slur after the results of a vote from the International Botanical Congress. In a thoroughly debated session in the recent meeting in Madrid, the vote passed 351 to 205 to rename all current botanical species with the species […] The post Botanists Vote to Remove Apartheid Slur from Plant Species Names in Africa appeared first on Good News Network.
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