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In search of lost biodiversity

pandas, elephants, whales, lions ... They are all animals that are part of the imaginary town as a species threatened with extinction. Who, at least once in their life, did not stop to think wistfully: "How bad would a world without lions in the savannah and no whales in the sea ..."?
really touching.
bet, however, that no one ever stopped to think how bad would a world without radish in the salad without rosemary sull'arrosto
... There is nothing to laugh: some types of plants are endangered and, ironically, often it is the species most commonly used, but the man, a good problem solver primate, found a solution for that, or the banks semi ... (and its seeds means the seeds of plants!)
The phenomenon has spread in recent years all over the world, including Italy, in Pavia, was born in 2005 Lombardy Seed Bank (LSB) that deals with the conservation of the natural vegetation through the case of seeds of plants and vegetation in general. It is estimated, in fact, that by 2050 at least 100,000 of the approximately 300,000 species of higher plants living on Earth could extinct, a few hundred thousand in Italy and in Lombardy.
In India, however, in 2006 Chamarajnagar District, State of Karnataka, was held on the International Day of the seeds, organized to inaugurate the Bank of seeds originating, and especially to understand that only the farmers cultivating their seeds without originating pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers, can break the vicious circle of dependence on multinationals and wear and go back to being self-sufficient.
In an effort to conserve biodiversity so threatened, sometimes you walk in ways that only a few years ago would have seemed paranoid science fiction films from catastrophic in Svalbard, Norway, about a year ago lays the foundation for the creation of a seed vault carved into a mountain Arctic. The deposit should ensure the long-term survival of vital food crops in the world, following the guidelines of a wider strategy that aims to protect the food supply by collecting seeds from every corner of the globe.