It’s the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, located in one of the coldest corners of the world: an island on the Svalbard archipelago, between Norway and the North Pole. This remote location allows the natural permafrost cooling necessary for proper storage of the world’s largest collection of crop diversity. If the zombie apocalypse were to become a reality, or just if farmers’ fields start to dry out, this seed vault would come to the rescue. The facility has a storage capacity of 4.5 million seed samples. Norwegian law has prohibited the storing of genetically modified seeds at the vault.
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What a wealth of fascinating and important information, Jan! Thank you so much for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWell, that is very interesting! And a good idea to have seeds stored. I'm glad they don't store the genetically altered seeds.
ReplyDeleteI had heard of that place in fact I believe we watched a documentary on TV.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reminding me.
Yes, I did know that. Pretty amazing.
ReplyDelete...yes, I had heard about this.
ReplyDeletemuy interesante. Te mando un beso.
ReplyDeleteThat is amazing.
ReplyDeleteI did not know this information, so thank you, Jan, for sharing it with us. xx
ReplyDeleteLearned about it years ago on TV..
ReplyDeleteI did know and hope this will be what saves the world when everything else fails.
ReplyDeleteYes, I saw a documentary about it and I think it's very important! hugs Elke
ReplyDeleteI knew of this, but mistakenly thought it was at Kew.
ReplyDeleteThe Svalbard Seed Vault quietly preserving the genetic heritage of our crops beneath the Arctic permafrost, like a time capsule safeguarding the future of humanity.
ReplyDeleteThat is interesting and I had no idea about seeds being kept, but it all makes sense.
ReplyDeleteWhat? They even have broccoli?
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Sad and very, very clever at the same time! I never knew, thank you.
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear that genetically modified seeds can't be stored at the Svalbard Seed Vault.
ReplyDeleteYes, I do know about this.
ReplyDeleteLove the mention of zombies.
ReplyDeleteWow
ReplyDeleteGood to know Jan :-D Those Zombies are coming one day!
ReplyDeleteI actually knew this as a lady posts videos from Svalbard about daily life there.
ReplyDeleteIt is an amazing place.
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I did know about that.
ReplyDeleteYes, I heard this back during the pandemic. Interesting.
ReplyDeleteI did not know that, really good idea someone thought of that because the way things are going you just never know.
ReplyDeleteThat is amazing, isn't it? And I am glad they aren't allowing anything stored that is genetically altered. Diana
ReplyDeleteWow. Didn't know about that. How interesting.
ReplyDeleteI did know about the seed vault. Here's hoping it doesn't get damaged in any way.
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