[PCA] ARTICLE: Ethical seed sourcing is a key issue in meeting global restoration targets

[Prescott, Leah]

From: INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR SEED-BASED RESTORATION
By: Paul G. Nevill, Adam T. Cross, Kingsley W. Dixon
January 15, 2019

"Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of wild seeds are needed to restore plant
ecosystems globally but over harvesting risks their depletion unless
ethical seed-sourcing regulations are developed, Curtin University research
has found. A paper, just published in journal Current Biology, concluded
that inadequate regulatory frameworks controlling wild-seed sourcing,
limited farming capacity and seed wastage are impeding moves towards the
sustainable practice of native-seed collection.

Lead author Dr Paul Nevill, from the ARC Centre for Mine Site Restoration
(CMSR) in Curtin’s School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Australia, said
resources continued to be eroded by habitat loss, land degradation and
climatic change. Without robust regulatory measures to meet the global
demand to revegetate plant populations, over-collection of seeds from wild
populations threatens further erosion."

Read more:
http://ser-insr.org/news/2019/1/14/ethical-seed-sourcing-is-a-key-issue-in-meeting-global-restoration-targets

Full article:
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31481-7

-- 
Leah Prescott
Seeds of Success
National Collection Curator (Contractor)
202-912-7232

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