25 It’s Less-Dramatically Known As The Svalbard Seed Vault. Let’s take a look at the seeds they’re stockpiling, the polar bears that totally DO guard the place and the mysterious Black Box system they’ve put in place. The three storage rooms inside the vault are sealed behind air-tight doors and kept at a temperature below zero. Somewhere in the chilly snows of Svalbard stands the Doomsday Vault. So if it turns out that one of those crop varieties held the key to resistance to a particular insect pest or disease, or was really heat tolerant and could be used in the future to help us adapt to climate change, then it's sort of tough luck," Fowler tells Melissa Block. "When a crop variety becomes extinct, we lose the ability to use any unique trait that it might have in the future. Norway owns the facility - nicknamed the "Doomsday Vault" - and the Global Crop Diversity Trust is funding the seed collection.Ĭary Fowler, the group's executive director, says the world is losing a significant amount of diversity "on a daily basis." It opened Tuesday, with 75 boxes of seeds.
Located on a Norwegian island in the Arctic Ocean near the village of Longyearbyen, the vault is built into permafrost deep inside a mountain. Despite the name, there arent any nuclear weapons or bad guys with cats hiding away here. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is designed to safeguard more than 2 billion seeds in case of natural or manmade disaster. Each one can hold about 1.5 million small packets of seeds. These seed samples are duplicates of seed. The seed bank's 130-yard-long tunnel leads to three storage rooms. Officially, the seed bank is the 'Svalbard Global Seed Vault.' Its built to warehouse backup copies of all the worlds crops - 1. The vault hold the seeds of many tens of thousands of varieties of essential food crops such as beans, wheat and rice.
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