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Letter: Seed banks are not nearly enough

Published 27 May 2015

From David Barnard

If we ever have to use seed banks to revive agriculture (see for example 3 January, p 23), will we also need to revive pollinators from insect banks?
Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK

Issue no. 3023 published 30 May 2015

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