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The world's garden shed

15 October 2009

Inside a cold storage bunker at Kew Garden’s in Ardingly, West Sussex, UK

The bank contains seeds from 10 per cent of the Earth’s wild plant species, providing an insurance policy for the planet’s plant life. The next goal is to collect 25 per cent of species by 2020.

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