The journey is unfinished - ethnobotany still has a great deal to teach the world by documenting the essential relationship between people and plants. Read this fascinating essay in full. To end we review a exemplory new Flora of County Dublin, Ireland, and suggest that it could be a stepping stone to a Flora Hibernica . Protected Areas Page . A forthcoming report from the European Commission addresses the financially tough future faced by protected areas in Africa and comes up with some suggestions as to how the rest of the world can help.
Book reviews .
Robert Crawford reviews a magnificent new Seed Encyclopedia and John Akeroyd inspects a new introduction to plant life in Mediterranean climates. THE LAST WORD . Our regular column of fine writing about plants, nature and conservation. In November 1998, the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end of the Great War.