section_path: Successful de-extinctions/York groundsel
section_name: York groundsel
paragraph_text: York groundsel
  
  The York groundsel is a species of Senecio that was first discovered in York, England in 1979 and last seen in the wild in 1991. A survey by UK government advisory body Natural England found it was driven to extinction by 2000, partly due to the use of weedkiller. Seeds of the plant were stored at the Millennium Seed Bank, successfully germinated, and reintroduced to York in 2023, marking the first time an extinct species has been revived and successfully reintroduced into its native range.