26 Jul 2014

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault

From This Way Up, 1:50 pm on 26 July 2014

Jane Toll of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, works for one of the organisations that oversees The Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It stores 825,000 samples from more than 200 crops in the permafrost on a remote Norwegian island in the Arctic circle.

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