Millennium Seed Bank Project
Hairy Wattle or Downy Wattle (Acacia pubescens) has become the 1000th seed sample to be sent to the Millennium Seed bank project at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew UK.
The Millennium Seed Bank Project (MSBP) is the largest ex situ conservation project ever conceived. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and its partners will have banked seed from 10% of the world’s wild plant
species by the end of the decade. These will not be just any plants, but will include the rarest, most threatened and most useful species known to man.
The Millennium Seed Bank Project seeks to develop a global seed conservation network, capable of safeguarding wild plant species. This will make direct contributions to national and global conservation/development programs, and will make a big contribution to meeting the objectives of the
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The current project will run until 2010.
Acacia pubescens
