Stories of how the data was collected were fascinating. Some people camped on islands for weeks. Some scaled cliffs or jumped ...

Instead of busy resorts and crowded beaches, there is an alternative destination in the Canary Islands with mind-blowing landscapes including a volcano and a rare flower ...

Now, we have created a new publicly available database known as A-Islands, which draws on decades of plant surveys (where botanists visit a particular location and record the plants found there).