Do you know where the world's most biodiverse location is? (Hint: the answer may surprise you. No spoilers!) Answer to be revealed soon👇
56% Brazil
9% United Kingdom
13% United States
22% South Africa
379 votes • Final results

Jun 7, 2019 · 7:41 AM UTC

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🥁 Drumroll, please. 🥁
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"Eighty percent of our calorie intake comes from 12 domesticated plant species." "Historically, farmers cultivated 7,000+ different plants to eat. Since the 1960s they focused on higher-yielding crops to produce more food using fertilisers, chemicals and new irrigation methods"
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If you knew that it's "a concrete bunker in the U.K." - you're correct! The @kew @Kew_MSBUK Millennium Seed Bank, in West Sussex, England is home to more than 40,000 plant #species at risk of #extinction "We are fighting a genetic bottleneck." news.trust.org/item/20190606…

UK seed vault banks on wild crops to feed a warming world

At England's Millennium Seed Bank, researchers conserve tens of thousands of wild plant samples that can be used to develop more resilient crops

news.trust.org
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Brazil but Congo could also be in the list
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First define biodiverse..........
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COLOMBIA
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What a tragedy that the Fascist lunatic @jairbolsonaro is destroying the natural wonders of Brazil with his war on the Environment & Brazil's indigenous people.
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none mention #Indonesia ?
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Colombia!