Svalbard Seed Vault
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| Facility in remote Norwegian Arctic archipelago; often mentioned to be necessary as back-up to restart human civilization. |
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, often termed the "doomsday vault", is a back-up facility for the world's crop diversity, which also is a storage location for books, archives and documents on long-lasting film,[1] on the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago.
Other facilities?
Articles mentioning it as "doomsday" vault are numerous,[2] and the facility was termed like this from the beginning,[3][4][5] but possibly not as regularly as lately.[6] If this facility is mainly meant to be back-up after nuclear war or impact, it is likely not the only professionally built and financially supported,[7] just the one that gets all media exposure.
A smaller, known project is India's in the Himalayas.[8]
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References
- ↑ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/second-doomsday-vault-preserve-data-opening-svalbard-180962749/
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/20/the-doomsday-vault-seeds-save-post-apocalyptic-world
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7912543.stm
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20130729035552/http://reliefweb.int/report/lesotho/global-seed-bank-save-humanity
- ↑ https://www.nature.com/articles/462721a
- ↑ "Sometimes called the doomsday vault," - https://www.croptrust.org/blog/ted-talks-cary-fowler/
- ↑ Rockefeller Foundation + Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - https://www.voltairenet.org/article162545.html
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20160117222923/http://www.natureasia.com/en/nindia/article/10.1038/nindia.2010.29
