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Two conservationists are racing across Wales with cotton bags, collecting seeds from rare plants before they disappear forever. Their freezer-stored "genetic library" has already brought extinct species back to life.
Two conservationists are racing across Wales to collect and freeze wild plant seeds before they disappear forever. Their work has already brought extinct species back to life.
After decades covering agriculture, M J Prabu returned to his Tamil Nadu village and sparked a movement to save disappearing native rice seeds. Now 800 farmers across 30 villages are restoring food traditions through community seed banks.
Deep beneath the Atacama Desert, Chile's largest seed bank is preserving the country's entire botanical heritage in an earthquake-proof freezer. The Initihuasi facility protects everything from rare flowering cacti to wine grapes, ensuring these plants survive no matter what challenges lie ahead.
A seed library in Bethlehem safeguards Palestine's agricultural heritage while its founder works from New York to protect threatened crop varieties. Palestinian farmers and diaspora communities now grow ancestral plants that carry centuries of cultural stories.
A family in Ecuador has spent years rescuing endangered plant species from the Amazon rainforest, transforming 80 acres of barren land into a living seed bank. They work alone, with no funding, to preserve species disappearing due to climate change and logging.