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The plant hunter

Follow ecologist Michael Way across Chile as he searches for rare and threatened plant species for Kew Garden's Millennium Seed Bank, in a bid to safeguard them for future generations, before it's too late.

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Pictures by Jonathan Drori, sound by Michael Way, produced by John Walton

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