After the fires: saving endangered plants from climate-driven extinction.

As the bushfires swept through the Stirling Range, a mountainous national park in Western Australia, during the final days of 2019, Sarah Barrett was waiting anxiously. Graph: Elinor Breman, who runs the seed conservation team at the Millennium Seed Bank, examining a newly arrived batch of seeds under a microscope. "They thought, originally, that this would hold 75% of the world's plant species that have orthodox seeds", Breman says, referring to seeds that can withstand drying and freezing. [Extracted from the article]

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