27 Feb 2018

Svalbard Global Seed Vault reaches 1 million specimens

From Morning Report, 8:55 am on 27 February 2018

Shipments of some of the world's most precious seeds will be delivered to a vault in the Arctic Circle today taking the total number stored there past the one-million mark. The Global Seed Vault was set up on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard ten years ago. Ola Westengen worked at the Svallbard Global Seed Vault for eight years. He talks to Susie Ferguson.