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| The war in Syria has led to the first withdrawal of seeds from the Svalbard Global Seed Bank. The well-known «doomsday» vault was built on the hillside of a mountain in the Arctic region. Its mission is to guarantee the access to food crops in the case of a global crisis.
This huge underground deposit contains more than 860.000 specimens coming from almost all nations, including Iraq and North Korea. |
The war in Syria has led to the first withdrawal of seeds from the Svalbard Global Seed Bank. The well-known «doomsday» vault was built on the hillside of a mountain in the Arctic region. Its mission is to guarantee the access to food crops in the case of a global crisis.
This huge underground deposit contains more than 860.000 specimens coming from almost all nations, including Iraq and North Korea. |