Scientists are racing to preserve Madagascar’s seeds
Published by the Natural Resources Defense Fund
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Scientists are racing to preserve Madagascar’s seeds –
Ninety percent of Madagascar’s 13,000 known plant species are found nowhere else on earth, but slash and burn agriculture threatens much of the island’s flora with extinction. As insurance against the species’ disappearance, researchers at the United Kingdom’s Kew Gardens are racing to collect as many seeds as possible in the institution’s Millennium Seed Bank. The Guardian
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