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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>
  • To: seedkeepers <seedkeepers@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Seed Keepers] Formal Opening Of the "Doomsday" Vault In Norway
  • Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:57:32 -0500


BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Life in the cold store
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7262525.stm>

Monday, 25 February 2008, 09:53 GMT

This week sees the formal opening of a vault designed to protect and preserve samples of valuable seeds. The "Doomsday" vault in Svalbard can store more than four million batches of seeds, including the world's major crop varieties. BBC environment correspondent Sarah Mukherjee is in Svalbard for the opening.

Professor Tore Skroppa, director of the Norwegian Forest and Landscape
Institute

Climate change is one of the reasons the vault has been created - but by no
means the only one.

Professor Skroppa points out those more than 40 countries have had some or all of their seed banks destroyed in recent years - whether through war, as in Afghanistan and Iraq, or through floods or other natural disasters, as in the Philippines.





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