Seed Vault

 By Mike Johnson

Everyone relies on food crops… including people who love eating meat. The importance of every country’s vegetation is inestimable. Can you imagine your country being fully bereft of crops?

Everyone would rely on the dwindling wildlife for food. Not to mention, the ecology of your country would completely change for the worse.

This isn’t an impossible scenario. Around 1,700 gene banks that house food crops aim to prevent this from happening. But again, should they fail to keep the seeds in their best condition for whatever reason, perhaps due to incorrect storage temperature or maybe because of natural calamity or man-made disasters, then there’s this seed bank in a remote Arctic island between Norway and the North Pole that has got them covered.

The Svalbard International Seed Vault houses duplicate copies of millions of seeds from seed banks from around the world. It provides a fail-safe protection for the seeds should the seed banks unsuccessfully keep the crops in their best condition.

Learn more about the Svalbard International Seed Vault and how it stores and protects the world’s seeds for future use in the infographic below, presented by mikesgearreviews.com

Global Seed Vault