All life on earth depends on plants. Plants are the basis of ecosystems in which all animals, including humans, live, survive and grow. By saving seeds we can save plants.
The Millennium Seed Bank has collected its billionth seed Oxytenanthera abyssinica for safekeeping and conservation.
The billionth seed was presented to the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, on 26 April, ahead of an official banking ceremony at the Millennium Seed Bank on 22 May.