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The World's Largest Seed Bank: Next Bank to Fail?
Photo by Fred DawsonSeems like the financial crisis has wracked more than just monetary institutions'€”Britain's Millennium Seed Bank is under major threat due to a lack of continued funding. The bank, the largest in the world, is home to 10 percent of all of the world's plant species, and stores six species thought to be extinct in the natural world. The bank may now fall short of its goal of collecting and conserving 25 percent of the world's plant species by 2020'€”which could mean even more rare and
Source: TreeHugger