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Kew s Wakehurst garden to become living laboratory
Kew’s wild botanic garden Wakehurst is to become a ‘living laboratory’ exploring benefits of biodiverse British landscapes through a new Landscape Ecology Programme launched for the International Day for Biological Diversity 2021.
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2021-05-21 02:05:22 GMT2021-05-21 10:05:22(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
SYDNEY, May 21 (Xinhua) About 60 kilometres southwest from Sydney s central business district, locates the Australian PlantBank with a huge seed and tissue culture collections.
Facing the International Day for Biological Diversity, researchers of the seed vault hope their work would bring more hope for conservation of biodiversity. Here at the PlantBank, our focus is wild native seeds from across Australia, particularly species in New South Wales (NSW). Our main focus at the moment is the threatened species. Here is the main repository for NSW threatened species seed, said Dr. Peter Cuneo, manager of the Seedbank and Restoration Research of the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust.
Biodiversity means health, ours and that of the planet 21 May 2021
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Edie Mukiibi, Vice- President of Slow Food. “Why? Because biodiversity is what enables agricultural systems to resist and overcome environmental shocks, pandemics and the climate crisis. It provides essential ecosystem services, such as pollination and soil fertility. It makes it possible to produce food with a lower impact on non-renewable resources and fewer external inputs, like pesticides. It is essential for our survival.”
Let’s look for a moment at the other side of the coin, at intensive agriculture, the system that is wiping out biodiversity at every level:
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