Amongst the seeds being protected this way by The Crop Trust currently are 200,000 varieties of rice and 125,000 varieties of wheat. 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 entrance to the vault is on a mountain called Spitsbergen, chosen for a number of factors including its perpetually frozen temperatures. Inside lives the last hope should the unthinkable occur: a global. It will be located on the remote, frigid island cluster of Svalbard, well north of Norways mainland, 621 miles (1,000 km) into the Arctic Ocean. In a remote mountainside on the Norwegian tundra sits the 'doomsday vault,' a backup against disaster - manmade or otherwise. They can then request to withdraw the seeds – also for free – if and when they need them. Norway revealed the design of the vault in February 2007. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway acts as an insurer to other seed collections: this free global service allows organizations to store their seeds once they are already placed in both their own collections and another seed bank, as a final back up. Indeed, the way humans farm and the way cities and industries have grown has damaged the diversity of crops, reducing options for future crops. Through war, wildfire and pandemic, The Doomsday Vault is expected to remain standing and strong. This vault in the Arctic Circle is our collective desperate response to the perennial threat of catastrophic events. It exists, in the words of its executive director Åslaug Haga, to “safeguard one of the most important natural resources” – plants. The Seed Vault is owned and administered by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food on behalf of the Kingdom of Norway and is established as a service to the. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a fortress designed to protect a vital backup of the world's seeds in case the worst ever happens. Safely burrowed into the mountain rock, deep enough to protect it from air temperature rihigh enough to avoid potential sea level rises, the Vault, which opened in 2008, is designed to last a thousand years, and to withstand a wide range of potential doomsday scenarios, including climate change, nuclear war, and even an asteroid strike. Nestled into the rocky waste of Plataberget Mountain, amongst the snow, Svalbard is the seed bank of seed banks, designed as a back-up for others. Doomsday seed vault town ‘warming quicker than any other on Earth’ Temperatures have risen three times faster than the global average putting seeds at risk Subscribe to Independent Premium to. Similar 'doomsday vaults' exist on Earth: The Global Seed Vault, home to just under 1 million seed samples, is located on a remote island in Svalbard, an archipelago located between Norway and the. Svalbard Global Seed Vault is located on a remote Norwegian archipelago for seeds to be stored deep within the permafrost. In May 2016, Magnum’s Jonas Bendiksen witnessed the deposit of more than 8,000 varieties of crops – from sheep food to chilli peppers – from Germany, Thailand, New Zealand, and the World Vegetable Center into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which only opens 2-3 times a year.
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