The entire vault can house 2.25 billion individual seeds from 4.5 million species. Some say that a zombie apocalypse or a natural disaster will be our demise, but you can stay prepared no matter what happens with the Survival Seed Vault. The seed bunker that saves the world in the apocalypse is facing the risk of falling before the flood even though the design is extremely solid.
For example, the vault stepped up to provide samples in 2015 for the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas after an Aleppo seed bank became unusable during the Syrian civil war. The seeds, sealed in special, four-layered foil containers, are safe for literally thousands of years, if necessary. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is the backup to these local reserves, in the case for some reason they are unavailable or depleted. It's located 120 meters (393.7 feet) into the rock of Platåberget ("plateau mountain"), meaning that even if the vault's mechanical cooling system fails and temperatures outside continue to boil Earth, the vault will remain at a stable -18 Celsius (0.4 Fahrenheit). The Global Seed Vault has been dubbed the doomsday vault, which conjures up an image of a reserve of seeds for use in case of an apocalyptic event or a. But in recent years, temperatures throughout Svalbard have been rising three times faster than the global average and rainfall has intensified, according to a new report by the Norwegian Environmental Agency. Opened in 2008, the vault is run by Norway and has so far taken in 1.25 million seed samples from almost every country in the world, preserved for all humanity, at -18, for hundreds, maybe even. This huge resource is the result of decades of work, first by. By the end of 2018, the Vault held 983,524 samples. Other October depositors included the John Innes Center in the United Kingdom, The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Kenya and Ethiopia, and the National Rice Seed Storage Laboratory for Genetic Resources (NRSSL) in Thailand. The vault's largest overall depositor is Mexico, whose International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center (CIMMYT) has deposited 177,850 seeds from 12 total species of maize (corn) and wheat.Ĭrop Trust, one of the organizations who work with the seed vault, says that Norway built the vault with $9 million of its own money, which easily makes it the most cost-effective, life-saving investment in the history of ever. Built to insure the world’s crop collection, the vault was once thought to be indestructible. The Svalbard Vault is administered by NordGen, the Nordic Genetic Resource Centre.
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