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Welcome to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Way up north, in the permafrost, 1300 kilometers beyond the Arctic Circle, is the world's largest secure seed storage, opened by the Norwegian Government in February 2008. From all across the globe, crates of seeds are sent here for safe and secure long-term storage in cold and dry rock vaults.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault – also known as the Doomsday Vault – is a gigantic bunker, sitting deep inside a mountain surrounded by snowy wastelands. The facility stores close to 900,000 seed samples from around the world and acts as a sort of back-up plan for agriculture, should disaster render parts of the planet unlivable or the world ...
Credit: Svalbard Global Seed Vault/Mari Tefre. The building is designed for virtually infinite lifetime. By building the vault 130 meters into the rock and 130 meters above sea level the facility is robustly secured against external hazards and climate change effects. Read more about the building itself and the building process.
A global backstop. The vault hold the seeds of many tens of thousands of varieties of essential food crops such as beans, wheat and rice. These seed samples are duplicates of seed sample stores in national, regional and international gene banks. Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Situated north of mainland Europe, it is ...
Svalbard Global Seed Vault welcomes shipments from four new depositors. The world’s largest repository of crop diversity raises the number of the samples in its care to 1.29 million. A total of 20,683 seed samples from 15 genebanks join hundreds of thousands of other seeds stored in the vault. Amongst the 15 genebanks four are new and deposit ...
Video - Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Way up north, in the permafrost, 1300 kilometers beyond the Arctic Circle, is the world's largest secure seed storage. A video produced by the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food tells the story about the Vault. Svalbard Global Seed Vault was opened by the Norwegian Government in February 2008.
Norwegian Government Security and Service Organisation (G.S.S.O.) Postbox 8129 Dep, N-0032 OSLO, Norway. Phone: + 47 22 24 90 90
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is owned by Norway and managed in partnership between the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food, the regional genebank NordGen, and the Crop Trust. As 2023 marks the 15th anniversary of the Vault, the partners this year opened its doors to the world -- virtually -- through a new virtual tour, allowing the ...
Ghana genebank becomes the 100th depositor to Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The deposit of new seeds from the Ghana genebank is an important step towards ensuring the long-term protection of the country’s major food crops. Ghana joins 15 other institutions, including one other first-time depositor – the Bonn University Botanic Gardens ...