The Millennium Seed Bank is an underground collection of over 2.4 billion seeds from around the world stored in sub-zero chambers in Wakehurst, Sussex. Part of Kew's Royal Botanic Gardens, it not only protects biodiversity by preserving threatened species, but also conducts cutting-edge scientific research into potential new foods, medicines and other products inspired by nature.
Up Next in Season 1
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RE:TV Rewilding the Highlands
Located on a 100-acre site near Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands, AECOM and the Lifescape Project have established a Natural Capital Laboratory. Working with the landowners, their local advisors and a team of researchers from the University of Cumbria, the site’s natural environment will be re...
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RE:TV Restoring Woodlands
Earth’s four billion hectares of forest, from Chocó rainforest in Ecuador and Colombia to the vast boreal forests of Canada and Russia, are the essential building blocks of a more sustainable world. Forests are our best mechanism for removing carbon pollution from the atmosphere, and they are a r...
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RE:TV Reseeding Rainforests
Brazil's Xingu Park is the oldest indigenous territory in Brazil. Its 2.6 million hectares provide a home to 16 different tribes. The Rede de Sementes do Xingu brings together over 500 indigenous seed-collectors to gather and disperse native seeds, preserving the Amazon's essential biodiversity w...
