BANKING SEEDS TO WEED OUT DISASTER

THE man in charge of logging each native seed in Ireland has described the project as like “Noah's Ark” for plants - a vault for renewal after ecological disasters.

- BY GRAINNE NI AODHA

Conservation ecologist Darren Reidy has been researching, gathering and banking native seeds across Ireland since his appointment in 2022.

'Banking' the seeds of a native Irish plant is complicated - ideally you would need 10,000 seeds per species.