A very strong building was built at the North Pole to save the seeds from the official worldwide enabled. Facility known as the Dome of the Apocalypse (Doomsday Vault) is created inside a frozen mountain on the Svalbard Islands, Norway, 1100 km from the north pole.
This dome will serve to save the seeds from around the world in order to protect the germplasm. The hope is, if there is a large disaster that struck the world, seeds are stored in the dome will be a source of human salvation before the famine.
This dome will serve to save the seeds from around the world in order to protect the germplasm. The hope is, if there is a large disaster that struck the world, seeds are stored in the dome will be a source of human salvation before the famine.
Because the function as the savior of man, then the dome was named the Dome of the Apocalypse (Doomsday Vault). The dome is located inside a frozen mountain on the Svalbard Islands, Norway, 1100 km from the North Pole.
In a statement, Prime Minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg called the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is our rescue policy. "This is 'Noah's Ark' to protect the biological diversity of future generations," said Jens Stoltenberg in the opening ceremony of the dome.The monumental event was also attended by European Commission President Jose Manual Barroso and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, Wangari Maathai, from Kenya.
Once opened, the dome is located deep in the bowels of the mountain is 127.5 meters will save the backup of hundreds of seeds from seed banks around the world. The room in which to load 4.5 million seed samples.
Dome of the construction cost of U.S. $ 9.1 million, the work of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, the same, the agency that funded the UN agency for food or affairs of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) and Biodiversity International, based in Rome, Italy-expected really be a future solution for the survival of human life.
