CRISIS TIPPING POINTS
Our PLANET is in CRITICAL danger
% LOST
SEED
varieties
(*2)
% LOST
CONIFER
varieties
(*3)
% ALTERED
LAND
environment
(*4)
(*1) Study by Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, UK and Stockholm University (10 June 2019)
(https://www.su.se/deep/english/about-us/news/almost-600-plants-have-already-gone-extinct-1.441057)
(*2) National Geographic July 2011; 1983 study conducted by the Rural Advancement Foundation International
(https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2011/07/food-ark/)
(*3) IUCN Red list of Threatened Species
(https://www.iucnredlist.org/resources/summary-statistics)
(*4) IPBES 'Natures's Dangerous Decline "Unprecedented"; Species Extinction Rates "Accelerating" (7 May 2019)
(https://www.ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment#_By_the_Numbers)
SEED VARIETY EXTINCTIONS
Our PLANET is in CRITICAL danger
Source: National Geographic July 2011; 1983 study conducted by the Rural Advancement Foundation International
OUR PLANET'S PLEA FOR HELP
Help save our seeds...humanities lifeline!!
NEW GLOBAL SEED COLLECTIONS
Each major city's ARK incorporates a local SEEDBANX™