AUSTRALIA: Rare plants bound for UK seed bank
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Some rare Australian treasures are on their way to a bank in Britain. But it's not jewels and money the bankers are after. Instead, they're taking seeds from Australian plants, which will be stored in the Millennium Seed Bank at the Royal Botanic Gardens in west London. The bank hopes to have stored seeds from 10 percent of the worlds plants - 24,000 - by 2010. The bank's International Co-ordinator has been working with local collectors in Australia's island state of Tasmania.
Presenter: Felicity Ogilvie
Speakers: Tasmanian seed collector Micah Visoiv; Seed Bank Coordinator, James Wood; Millennium Seed Bank international co-ordinator Michiel van Slageren
