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LONDON - Britain's seed bank, the only one in the world aiming to collect all of the planet's wild plant species, has reached its goal of banking 10 percent by 2010. Full Article at MSNBC
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Ten percent is just the beginning. We have room here to store approximately two-thirds of the world's plant species so we need to get on with it. Species will become extinct if we don't get some of them
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It is urgent and it is happening now. The amount of land conversion people are undertaking is unprecedented, it's phenomenal. If you go to places like India and China you realize we are in a mass extinction
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At times during the past nine years it looked like we wouldn't be able to do that, but actually the momentum we've got now is tremendous
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We've brought it in under budget and on time
