The Svalbard seed vault: safeguarding the world's crop varieties – video
by Guardian Staff from on (#9CJ2)
The Svalbard seed vault, which opened in 2008, has been entrusted by the world's governments with the safekeeping of the most prized varieties of crops on which human civilisation was raised. It contains the seeds of around 4,000 plant species - more than 720,000 individual samples. The site was built to be disaster-proof - it lies 130 metres up a mountain in Norway in case of sea-level rise and is earthquake-resistant Continue reading...
