Svalbard Seed Vault
 Svalbard Seed Vault(Seed bank, World War preparation?)    | |
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| Locations | Svalbard,Norway |
| 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.
Gates and Rockefeller Foundations
The Svalbard project will be run by an organization called the Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT), which is funded by the Gates Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation.[2] The GCDT was founded by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and Bioversity International (formerly the International Plant Genetic Research Institute), an offshoot of the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research. Its Board was chaired by Margaret Catley-Carlson a Canadian also on the advisory board of Group Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux, one of the world's largest private water companies. Catley-Carlson was also president until 1998 of the New York-based Population Council, John D. Rockefeller's population reduction organization.[3]
Other facilities?
Articles mentioning it as "doomsday" vault are numerous,[4] and the facility was termed like this from the beginning,[5][6][7] but possibly not as regularly as lately.[8] 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,[9] just the one that gets all media exposure.
A smaller, known project is India's in the Himalayas.[10]
References
- ↑ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/second-doomsday-vault-preserve-data-opening-svalbard-180962749/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150111000014/http://www.croptrust.org/content/donors
- ↑ https://www.globalresearch.ca/doomsday-seed-vault-in-the-arctic-2/23503
- ↑ 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
