Deep inside a mountain on a remote island in the Svalbard archipelago, halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, lies the Global Seed Vault.
That’s such a cool sentence. I didn’t write it. It’s the sentence that sits at the top of the Crop Trust website, over a picture of a large concrete door surrounded by snow. A door that leads beneath the permafrost, down a long tunnel and into what is probably the most important room on the planet.
As it says on the website, the Global Seed Vault is “a long-term seed storage facility, built to stand the test of time — and the challenge of natural or man-made disasters. The Seed Vault represents the world’s largest collection of crop diversity.” The vault already holds over 986,000 samples–seeds from all around the world, from North Korea to Argentina. It has room for nearly 2 billions more. Take a look inside.
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