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The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP or MSB), formerly known as the Millennium Seed Bank Project, is the largest ex situ plant conservation programme in the world [1] coordinated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. After being awarded a Millennium Commission grant in 1995, the project commenced in 1996, and is now housed in the Wellcome ...
The organisation manages botanic gardens at Kew in Richmond upon Thames in south-west London, and at Wakehurst, a National Trust property in Sussex which is home to the internationally important Millennium Seed Bank, whose scientists work with partner organisations in more than 95 countries. [2]
The UK Native Seed Hub (UKNSH) is a project of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's Millennium Seed Bank Partnership growing and distributing seeds of UK native plant species. . It is in part a response to the 2010 report Making Space for Nature by Sir John Lawt
The Royal Botanic Gardens stores over 2.4 billion individual seeds in a bomb and floodproof underground vault in rural West Sussex. More than 40,000 plant species now stored in Kew Gardens’ seed ...
The garden today covers some 2 km 2 (490 acres) and includes walled and water gardens, woodland and wetland conservation areas. RBG Kew has leased the land from the National Trust since 1965 and much has been achieved in this time, from the Millennium Seed Bank project and the creation of the Loder Valley and Francis Rose Nature Reserves to the ...
The flagpole at Kew Gardens, which stood from 1959 until 2007. Kew consists mostly of the gardens themselves and a small surrounding community. [12] Royal residences in the area which would later influence the layout and construction of the gardens began in 1299 when Edward I moved his court to a manor house in neighbouring Richmond (then called Sheen). [12]
The series also goes behind the scenes of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank Project. [ 2 ] The series makes use of multiple camera formats and employs live action, time-lapse, high-speed, infrared, macro and micro photography to bring its subjects to life.
Roger Smith is a UK biologist and founder of the Millennium Seed Bank Project. [1] [2] He was awarded an OBE in the 2000 New Year Honours List for services to the project. [3] Smith joined the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1974, [4] after graduating from Manchester University with a BSc in botany. [5]