The vault has the capacity to store 4.5 million seed samples from around the globe, shielding them. Our cool and calm Moon wouldn’t be the worst place, granted, with lava tubes that mimic the Svalbard Vault, only this time at a distance the climate crisis can’t quite reach. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is seen on Monday, Feb. There’s around 500 seeds in each, which puts the total number of individual seeds at around 400 million. As of 2015, We Add Up reports, the total number of samples lay at around 770,000. The idea even inspired researchers from the University of Arizona who went one step further in suggesting that the Moon might be a good spot for creating a repository of life. CNNs Arwa Damon gives a behind the scenes tour of the 'Doomsday' seed vault in Norway, that many believe to be the key to mankinds survival. As such, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault was built to accommodate a dizzying amount of seeds. That said, the vault isn’t without its applications in the event of a global disaster in providing a safe haven for Earth’s botanical species should something go awry topside. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a doomsday shelter for the food supply, is tucked into a remote mountain on Spitsbergen, in Norways Svalbard archipelago. “While there may be a role for the Seed Vault in the event of a global catastrophe, its value is considered to lie much more in providing back-up to individual collections in the event that the original samples, and their duplicates in conventional gene banks, are lost due to natural disasters, human conflict, changing policies, mismanagement, or any other circumstances,” reads the Svalbard Global Seed Vault’s website. The seeds of onions from Brazil, guar beans from central Asia and wildflowers from a meadow at Prince Charles’s home in the UK are among the species being safeguarded at the Svalbard Global.
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