Svalbard Global Seed Vault

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a seed bank (a place where seeds are kept) in Norway. It is on the island of Spitsbergen, near Longyearbyen, in the Arctic Svalbard archipelago. It is about 1,300 kilometres (810 miles) from the North Pole. Conservationist Cary Fowler worked with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), to start the vault.

The vault is there to save many different kinds of plant seeds. The seeds at the vault are copies of seeds from other places around the world. Copies of seeds are kept in case the seeds in other places are lost. Three organizations decided how to manage the vault. Those organizations were the Norwegian government, the Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT) and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen).

The Norwegian government paid for building the vault. It cost about 45 million Norwegian kroner (US$9 million) to build. Storing seeds in the vault is free. Norway and GCDT pay to operate the vault. GCDT gets money from organisations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and from different governments worldwide.

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Finn B
24 October 2016
Free of charge to watch from the outside...
Rob
13 January 2017
Humanity's last hope!
Jia Li
28 March 2016
I wish this was open
S K
22 January 2017
Dünyadaki tüm bitki türlerinin büyük felaketler sonrası kullanılması için 130 mt. derinde kurulan geleceğin Nuhun Gemisi????2,5 milyardan fazla tür ve çeşit tohumun her 10 yılda bir değiştirildiği ambar
paipoi
16 December 2014
スヴァールバル世界種子貯蔵庫。5つの扉の先に、世界中から収集した食物の種だけを83万種冷凍保存。危機で食物が絶滅しても復活させる2008年ノルウェー政府主導の試み。固い岩盤に作られ、冷却装置が壊れても-4℃を保つ。北朝鮮の種子もあり、日本からは大麦などが提供されている。
Vasyl An
25 December 2012
Ничего особенного. Бетонная будка с гирляндой на крыше в чистом поле. Если дорога не чищена, не суйтесь. Мы поехали и провалились.
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