It will take some years to assemble because some genebanks need to multiply stocks of seed first, and other seeds need regenerating before they can be shipped to Svalbard. The Seed Vault safeguards duplicates of 1,145,693 seed varieties from almost every country in the world, with room for millions more. The storage facility is carved into solid rock some 390 feet inside the mountain, where the seeds are kept at a temperature of -18C (-0.4F), enough to significantly delay them from aging. The objective of the Seed Vault is to safeguard as much of the world’s unique crop genetic material as possible, while also avoiding unnecessary duplication. The Doomsday Vault, managed by the Nordic Genetic Resource Center, first opened in 2008. The Global Music Vault is spearheaded by Oslo-based Elire Management Group, which claims the building should last for at least 1,000 years buried beneath 1,000-feet of snow on the Svalbard archipelago. ‘Doomsday Vault’ Project in Norway JThe Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which is a long-term storage facility that established to save plant species from extinction and replant in the event of a possible global disaster, is attracting more and more attention. In fact, the Seed Vault already holds the most diverse collection of food crop seeds in the world. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault also known as the 'Doomsday Bunker'. A 'Doomsday vault' for recorded music is being constructed on an arctic island between the North Pole and Norway.
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These range from unique varieties of major African and Asian food staples such as maize, rice, wheat, cowpea and sorghum to European and South American varieties of eggplant, lettuce, barley and potato. Each packet of seeds consists of an average of 500 seeds, so a maximum of 2.5 billion seeds may be stored in the Seed Vault.Ĭurrently, the Seed Vault holds more than 1.1 million seed varieties, originating from almost every country in the world. L LONDON Buried almost 1,000 feet below a snow-covered mountain, on an arctic island midway between Norway and the North Pole, a Norwegian company is planning to create what it says will be a. The purpose of the Vault is to store duplicates (backups) of seed samples from the world’s crop collections. The Seed Vault has the capacity to store 4.5 million varieties of crops. On 1 January 2008 the Nordic Gene Bank was integrated with NordGen.