Plants and the ecosystems they sustain are vital to us... to the environment... to the planet. They breathe life-giving oxygen into the air. They give us food. They provide medicines. They are also a source of fuel and shelter — and can even help to combat the effects of climate change.
Many plants have hidden properties yet to be discovered. Just think ...plants could even hold the answer to curing cancer and AIDS, or creating clean, low-emission bio-fuels. For all these important reasons, we must protect them.
By conserving seeds, we are protecting the very source of life on earth. Support Kew's Millennium Seed Bank with a donation today and you can help us collect and conserve seeds — and protect more endangered plant species. Our survival depends on it.
More than 20 percent of the world's oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest.