Rapa Nui

The museum has two moai statues which were taken from the Chilean territory of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, in 1868.

There have long been calls to return the Hoa Hakananai'a, or "Stolen Friend", to Rapa Nui.

The museum says it has good and open relations with colleagues in Rapa Nui and there have been several visits from the community to London since 2018.

It has also had medicinal plants, exotic plants from Europe and Asia, a large collection of species from the remote Juan Fernández Islands in the Pacific, and some of the world’s last known Sophora toromiro trees, which are native to Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, but are now extinct in the wild.

Some of the surviving plants included a few of the nearly extinct Sophora toromiro trees from Rapa Nui, as well as Ginkgo biloba trees from the park’s “Garden of Peace,” which is made up of plants that survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan.