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A "doomsday" seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain on the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

                             

"The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is our insurance policy," Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told delegates at the opening ceremony. "It is the Noah's Ark for securing biological diversity for future generations."

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai of Kenya were among the dozens of guests who had bundled up for the ceremony inside the vault, about 130 meters (425 feet) deep inside a frozen mountain.

"This is a frozen Garden of Eden," Barroso said.

The vault will serve as a backup for hundreds of other seed banks worldwide. It has the capacity to store 4.5 million seed samples from around the world and shield them from man-made and natural disasters. Dug into the permafrost of the mountain, it has been built to withstand an earthquake or a nuclear strike.

Norway owns the vault in Svalbard, which cost about NOK 50 million (USD 9 million) to build. Other countries can deposit seeds without charge and reserve the right to withdraw them upon need.

The operation is funded by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which was founded by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and Biodiversity International, a Rome-based research group.

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suss ka bongga sa seed vault oii..perte man ka mahal..

This is great.

Children of tomorrow will be very happy to know that their forefathers took good care of them!

In case mobalik ang Ice Age. The modern Noah's Arc.

Very intuitive of the Norwegian government, they're thinking species-wise not just nation-wise.

I think the United States has a massive vault underneath a military held-mountain range in the Rockies that holds such things; as well as weaponry. The entire mountain range is bunkered.

Bravo to Norway for Her future-oriented plans. Let's just hope it doesn't have to come to that.

Huy this is what i told you before Ginger...
if i can go visit you one day, i want to go there, promise!

 I really applaud the Scandinavian people for their environment-oriented policies.

They are truly a people to model after.

Quote from: ms da binsi on February 27, 2008, 02:37:35 AM
Huy this is what i told you before Ginger...
if i can go visit you one day, i want to go there, promise!

Thailand has a different sort of "seed" vault.

Quote from: ms da binsi on February 27, 2008, 02:37:35 AM
Huy this is what i told you before Ginger...
if i can go visit you one day, i want to go there, promise!

Belle, Svalbard is very near na sa North Pole. Tugnaw kaayo ug moadto ta.

Quote from: Ginger on February 27, 2008, 04:57:04 PM

Quote from: ms da binsi on February 27, 2008, 02:37:35 AM
Huy this is what i told you before Ginger...
if i can go visit you one day, i want to go there, promise!

Belle, Svalbard is very near na sa North Pole. Tugnaw kaayo ug moadto ta.

Omg! so is Santa close by?

lol

Dude, thats so awesome tho, North Pole!

Dong, Santa lives in Finland. LOL!

Finland? when was this?!??!!?

LoL

Dude, my 4th grade teacher Lied to me!

Santa Claus lives in Finnland in a place called Korvatunturi.

It is very 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' ish.

Image of the Global Seed Vault.

Ay thank you dear!

sa una ra ko pangayo nimo ana!

Quote from: ms da binsi on February 28, 2008, 06:31:49 AM
Ay thank you dear!

sa una ra ko pangayo nimo ana!

Pasensya na, karon ra ko kita ug pic.

Quote from: Ginger on February 27, 2008, 09:19:08 PM



Image of the Global Seed Vault.

That is so beautiful.

You are right, Hazel, this is a Noah's Ark, so to say.