Under the guidance of Director Prof. Dr. Sabine Zachgo, the Botanical Garden of Osnabrück University is making a valuable contribution to the preservation of biodiversity: as part of the ‘Wildpflanzen-Schutz Deutschland’ (WIPs-De) project, seeds from wild plants are collected and stored in deep freeze. A recent article in the FAS newspaper focuses on German efforts to save plants – and goes into detail about the work of Zachgo and her team.