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Development Threatens St. Petersburg Seed Bank
from BBC News Online
New private homes could replace Europe's largest collection of fruits and berries, if a Russian court rules the land could be sold to property developers.
The Pavlovsk experimental station near the Russian city of St. Petersburg is the biggest European field seed bank and one of the largest in the world. Thousands of varieties of plants and crops there are found nowhere else.
The court hearing is scheduled for 11 August. Recently, the Global Crop Diversity Trust appealed to the Russian authorities to save the collection, which many scientists call an irreplaceable biological heritage.
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