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2021-05-21 02:05:22 GMT2021-05-21 10:05:22(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
SYDNEY, May 21 (Xinhua) About 60 kilometres southwest from Sydney s central business district, locates the Australian PlantBank with a huge seed and tissue culture collections.
Facing the International Day for Biological Diversity, researchers of the seed vault hope their work would bring more hope for conservation of biodiversity. Here at the PlantBank, our focus is wild native seeds from across Australia, particularly species in New South Wales (NSW). Our main focus at the moment is the threatened species. Here is the main repository for NSW threatened species seed, said Dr. Peter Cuneo, manager of the Seedbank and Restoration Research of the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust.