Noah's seed bunker: Protecting billions of wild plant...
First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. Chilling at minus 20°C in airtight glass jars in a vault large enough to house 30 double-decker buses, there are nearly 2.5 billion seeds from across the world lying in cold storage here, including thousands of South Africa’s most precious wild seeds. Depending on whether you are of a glass half-empty or half-full persuasion, this massive global facility can be seen either as a Doomsday vault or a modern Noah’s Ark. Either way, it was set up as an insurance policy to ensure the continuity of a rich variety of plant life should t...
Source: dailymaverick.co.za