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Antarctic doomsday vault3/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Last year, the Syrian war actually prompted the first-ever withdrawal from the ‘doomsday vault’. If a country wants to make a withdrawal of their deposit, it must be in accordance with the terms and conditions of an international treaty that was approved by 118 countries or parties. It’s all managed under terms spelled out in an agreement between the Norwegian government, the Global Crop Diversity Trust and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen). No one has access to anyone else’s seeds from the seed vault. It works pretty much in the same way as keeping a safety deposit box in a bank.įor example, North Korea still owns the contents of their deposit even though Norway owns the facility that houses and protects the hermit’s kingdom’s spare seed supply. The government of Norway owns the facility, having undertaken most of the construction and operational costs (although investors include the Bill Gates and Rockefeller foundations), but all countries are welcome to store their seeds in the vault for free. The world’s largest library of crop genetic diversity is kept securely sealed most of the year, only a few people have access to the vault and there are no permanent employees on site. Oh, and the vault also has more than 20,000 marijuana seeds, ensuring weed will indeed survive the apocalypse. It is designed to survive the depredations of man, natural disaster, and time. Even North Korea participated and keeps a deposit box there. These are the “spare” copies the back-ups to the back-ups of crop seeds held in the world’s gene banks, sent in by rival nations across the globe. Buried 390 feet deep inside a sandstone mountain on an island between Norway and the North Pole, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, also known as the doomsday vault, is home to the millions of seeds that could save a post-apocalyptic world. In the event of Armageddon, I think I know where I’ll be headed now. ![]()
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