{"id":525904,"date":"2026-04-11T22:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525904\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:35:08","slug":"doomsday-seed-collectors-aim-to-save-wales-native-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525904\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomsday seed collectors aim to save Wales&#8217; native species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kevin said people often suffered from &#8220;plant blindness&#8221; where the benefits to the environment, and society itself, are overlooked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When plant species are lost, ecosystems become less resilient to pressures such as climate change, disease and extreme weather,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This can trigger knock-on effects, for example, insects that rely on specific plants may decline or disappear too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Changes like this can affect people. Floral diversity supports pollinators and fewer pollinators can reduce crop yields, impacting food production and local economies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Plant diversity also helps maintain soil health, which is vital for farmland, flood mitigation and communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin said people often suffered from &#8220;plant blindness&#8221; where the benefits to the environment, and society itself, are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-525904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}