Global Seed Vault Marks 1-year Anniversary With Four-ton Shipment Of Critical Food Crops

Four tons of seeds -- almost 90,000 samples of hundreds of crop species -- from food crop collections maintained by Canada, Ireland, Switzerland, USA and three international agricultural research centers in Syria, Mexico and Colombia, were delivered February 26 to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault as it celebrated its one-year anniversary. The repository, located near the village of Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, has in one year amassed a collection of more than 400,000 unique seed samples -- some 200 million seeds.

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