When you have got room, time and support, you will have to get autochtone seeds. Don't expect help from the officials, don't talk to them like to nice people because they are not nice. Don't try to appeal to their reason because they don't have any!
Use the help of profs and teachers with brains in the head to get seeds from the original biotopes - legally, and with papers! These bureacratic jerks can't forbid you to get seeds and to cultivate them. They can abuse their force to prevent you from bringing them back into nature, however. So alarm the publicity and plan your actions well. Even a small group can accomplish enough: Exhibitions about endangered species, biotope isolation and bureaucratic arbitrary acts. Excursions to destroyed or endangered biotopes. Collections of signatures and protest actions to throw the most arrogant of these idiots from their chairs. Improve your finances by collecting money and by selling hybrids as demonstration material and don't forget to point out that the law forces you to grow these plants and no others. Store all seeds from the wild species in refrigerators until the legal situation is not longer against you.
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"Vogon Constructor Fleets: They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat and recycled as firelighters. The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat and the best way to irritate him is to feed his grandmother to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. On no account allow a Vogon to read poetry at you."
Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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