posted on Oct, 27 2009 @ 11:29 PM
So I ask does the government around the world know something we
don't????? The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure seed bank located on the
Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near the town of Longyearbyen in the
remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago.Norwegian bunkers – along with the
underground lodgements built in Norway, A letter from a Norwegian
politician about 2012) it was also officially inaugurated a warehouse
with hundreds of millions of seeds to protect humanity in the case of a
catastrophe, on 26 of February, 2008. The Prime-Minister of Norway,
Jens Stoltenberg, also an ecologist militant, Wangari Maathai (Kenya) –
the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace, Jose Manuel Barroso – the
President of the European Commission, took part at the inauguration.
As I have mentioned the amazing seed vault in Norway, that seemingly
offers plants a better chance of surviving a cataclysm than humans have. Other places to find species kept safe include: Native Seeds -
2000 plant varieties in Tucson, USA.
Ambrose Monell Cryo Collection - houses a million frozen tissue samples
representing the DNA of a wide range of animal species. Located in New York
City.
Millennium Seed Bank Project - large underground frozen vaults in West Sussex,
UK, preserving the world's largest collection of seeds. Now has over 1 billion
seeds stored. Aiming to cover 24,000 species of plants, approximately 10% of all
existing dry land flora. There are more than 1,000 seed banks — including a newly opened, unmanned "doomsday" facility in
the Arctic wastes of Norway that will ultimately house more than 1 billion crop seeds. But the one at Wakehurst Place, about 30 miles south of London,
says it's the only global facility of its kind, unique for its focus on wild species, not just crops. It says it aims to store a quarter of the
world's species by 2020, and could eventually house half of them. It currently has 25,000 species and 1.5 billion seeds. The seed bank's scientists
gauge the total number of plant species at 300,000, which represents a middle figure in the widely varying, constantly changing, global estimate. At
the Millennium Seed Bank,meticulously clean them, X-ray them for insect damage and freeze them for possible future use as medicine, a commercial
product, or a reviver of a plant that has gone extinct. It is a global effort: The bank has more than 120 different partners in some 50 countries
where seeds are collected and stored. In many cases, seeds are kept both in their native countries and here as a backup. Some countries, Brazil for
instance, are unwilling to send precious seeds overseas, so they are kept in at least two seed banks inside the country, their
standards monitored by Millennium Seed Bank experts. The project, under the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, The futuristic facility, is seen by
scientists as an insurance policy against nature and human folly. links
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedbank www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/02/26/norway.seeds/index.html
2012wiki.com/index.php?title=Seed_Vault