I’ve no idea, but I’ll be watching this one with interest:
The San Diego Zoo’s Beckman Center for Conservation and Research is teaming teams up with the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians to create a unique effort sponsored by The Burpee Foundation to restore and revitalize the tribe’s traditional ecological knowledge of native plants and their uses. The partnership, called Burpee’s Native Seeds for Native Americans Program, will join the expertise of scientists from the San Diego Zoo with the experience and knowledge of tribal members, to create outreach efforts that educate and empower tribal youth about their cultural and environmental heritage.
That’s a world class zoo and a world class seed company getting together to use their facilities and expertise to preserve useful plants and the knowledge that goes with them. Too good to be true? I hope not.