The writer is a science commentator
The words we use to describe things can frame the way we think about them. Fungi, for example, are neither plants nor animals. This fact could be holding back their conservation.
That is because policies and legislation aimed at protecting the natural world are often written in the language of flora and fauna, terms that describe a region’s plants and animals respectively. Fungi, which constitute a separate kingdom in the classification of living things, can end up falling through the cracks.
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