Biodiversity / Food / Water
August 25, 2002
Seed Bank For Wildflowers And Grasses
Keywords: Ecosystems / Biodiversity NGO / Citizen
Concerned that wildflowers and grasses have increasingly become scarce as a result of urbanization across Japan, a company worker in Chiba Prefecture has started a seed bank of wildflowers and grasses. The bank has received the seeds of about six hundred species from some two hundred lovers of wildflower and grasses and is distributing them to those who wish to grow them.
Posted: 2002/08/25 09:36:27 AM
Japanese version
Posted: 2002/08/25 09:36:27 AM
Japanese version
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