With the help of Kew Gardens—where Hooker's father was director—shipments of trees were to be sent to Ascension Island.

In Britain, organizations including the Natural History Museum, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and the Wellcome Sanger Institute have joined forces to sequence Britain's 66,000 species of animals and plants.

For example, an old man named Qiu Qingnian is good at making natural paints for repairing ancient paintings.