Seed Vault
I am interested to know more when I come across an article regarding Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
I have not thought that there is such a huge project going on until I discovered this. The main aim of the Seed Bank is to protect all the plants in the world become extinct because of foreseeable catastrophes.
The Svalbard International Seed Vault has been built inside a mountain in a man-made tunnel on the frozen Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. It is designed to survive catastrophes such as nuclear war and world war. It is operated by the Global Crop Diversity Trust. A tunnel has been created in a sandstone mountain on Spitsbergen, which is part of the Svalbard archipelago, about 1307 kilometres (812 miles) from the North Pole. The area’s permafrost will keep the vault below the freezing point of water and the seeds are protected by 1-metre thick walls of steel-reinforced concrete. There are two airlocks and two blast-proof doors. The vault accepted the first seeds on 26 February 2008.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault: 50 000 seed samples sent to the Vault – 50k, this is an amazing numbers.
Here is another article I manage to search online – Seeds kept for posterity in Spitsbergen.
It’s no doubt that prevention is always better than cure. For sure the operating cost to run this project is a huge amount. I just hope that there will be no catastrophes happen and all of the human, life and creatures can continue live happily on the Earth….
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May 6th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
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May 7th, 2010 at 2:01 am
TomPier says:great post as usual!