Are people ready to disaster, yes, you can also find this the global vault seeds in Svalbard , we often read in the headlines about the types of animals threatened with extinction, such as humpback whales, rhinos and others, but do not forget that plant life is at risk as well.
Fruits and vegetables, which was the cause of the growth of human beings for thousands of years, taking into extinction, one study found that among more than 8,000 species of crops grown in the United States of America in 1903, only 600 species of them are remain in the year 1983.
What will happen if a global nuclear war takes place? What would happen if an asteroid hit the planet? Or catastrophic climate change, Will then be varieties plant exists able to supply human life? The solution lies in "Noah's Ark of seeds".
This life ship is located about 1,300 km to the south of the North Pole, in the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in an underground cave, This ship called the global seed vault located in Svalbard - very large fort accommodate for types of 4.5 million seeds of plants. This ship is also called "Doomsday", which is a global insurance policy against possible disasters that plant life-threatening, where food production can be reproduced anywhere in the event of a regional or global catastrophe.
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