Thursday, February 26, 2009

More seeds for 'doomsday vault'

More seeds for 'doomsday vault'

Entrance to the Svalbard seed vault (Image: Mari Tefre/Global Crop Diversity Trust)
The remote, frozen landscape provides an ideal backdrop for the vault

Almost 90,000 food crop seed samples have arrived at the "doomsday vault" in the Arctic Circle, as part of its first anniversary celebrations.

The four-tonne shipment takes the number of seeds stored in the frozen repository to more than 20 million.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built 130m (426ft) inside a mountain, aims to protect the world's food crop species against natural and human disasters.

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