The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership, formerly the Millennium Seed Bank Project, is the largest ex situ plant conservation programme in the world, coordinated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Commenced in 1996 after a 1995 Millennium Commission grant, it is housed at Wakehurst Place, West Sussex, and stores seeds in underground frozen vaults as an insurance policy against the extinction of plants in the wild.
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The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership is a textbook ex situ (seed-bank) conservation facility.
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The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP or MSB), formerly known as the Millennium Seed Bank Project, is the largest ex situ plant conservation programme in the world, coordinated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. After being awarded a Millennium Commission grant in 1995, the project commenced in 1996, and is now housed in the Wellcome Trust Millennium Building situated in the grounds of Wakehurst Place, West Sussex.
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