Svalbard Global Seed Vault

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened officially on 26 February 2008.

There are many gene banks all over the world, with the Svalbard Global Seed Vault being probably the most famous one.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault's mission is to provide a safety net against accidental loss of diversity in traditional genebanks.

It's easy to imagine the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which opened in 2008, as humanity's last, best defense against good old-fashioned, planet-trashing disaster.

The crew are inspired to revive the long-extinct pine tree with seeds from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

It was the only citizen-led group in the United States to contribute to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault for opening day.

A post-apocalypse trip to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to retrieve the seeds that will save humanity may seem like good fodder for a movie.

Both the Nordic and African collections have been transferred to the new Svalbard Global Seed Vault facility.

In that same month he became one of the first people to be allowed inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Svalbard islands.

Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a secure seedbank/gene bank located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen.

It is the site of Svalbard Satellite Station and Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Svalbard Global Seed Vault (or Doomsday Vault)

Bent Skovmand, 61, Danish plant scientist and conservationist, founder of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, brain tumor.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a seedbank to store seeds from as many of the world's crop varieties and their botanical wild relatives as possible.

Research and tourism have become important supplementary industries, featuring among others the University Centre in Svalbard and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a vault buried 400 feet inside a mountain in the Arctic with over ten tons of seeds from all over the world.

Current examples include the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a seedbank which is intended to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds (such as important crops) in case of their extinction.

These efforts included providing support to developing countries and international agricultural research centers to deposit shipments of seed samples in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault for safety duplication purposes.

This has seen the arrival of institutions such as the University Centre in Svalbard, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and Svalbard Satellite Station.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, administered by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, is a secure underground facility capable of storing millions of crop seeds.

Voicing a strong reaction to the idea of books simply being thrown away, and inspired by the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Kahle now envisions collecting one copy of every book ever published.

Fowler was the Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust and was influential in the creation of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, for which he has appeared in media worldwide.

Running the length of the building's flat roof and down the front face to the doors of the building's concrete entry is a work of art that marks the location of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault from a great distance.

The Trust is involved with the Government of Norway and the Nordic Gene Bank in the establishment of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a "fail-safe" facility located at Svalbard, Norway.

The European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association (EISCAT) opened a radar in 1996, followed by Svalbard Satellite Station in 1999 and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in 2008.