WATCH: The Seed Vault

WATCH: The Seed Vault

Postby Oscar » Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:18 pm

WATCH: The Seed Vault - 16 min.

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50,000 Seeds Deposited to 'Doomsday Vault' Housing World's Largest Collection of Crop Diversity

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Feb. 25, 2017 04:28PM EST

A major seed deposit critical to ensuring global food security was made to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle on Wednesday.

Despite a backdrop of geopolitical volatility, nearly 50,000 samples of seeds from seed collections in Benin, India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Netherlands, the U.S, Mexico, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus and the U.K have traveled to the vault on the Svalbard archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole on Wednesday for long-term safekeeping.

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