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Plaque on the door: The Svaldbard Global Seed Vault is the largest safety backup of the world's crop diversity. 130 meters inside the mountain, seed vault samples of crop diversity from all over the world are stored at a constant temperature of -18°C. There is no public access to the seed vault. Website: seedvault.no

The Gobal Seed Vault in Longyearbyen safeguards duplicates of 1,214,827 seed samples from almost every country in the world to backup genebank collections for securing the foundation of our future food supply.

Taken in Svalbard, Norway

The Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) is a small subspecies of reindeer, only found on Svalbard.

 

Compared to other reindeer, they are short-legged and have a small, rounded head. Their fur is also lighter in color and thicker during winter.

 

I met these right by the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, on the only foggy day I had during my week on Svalbard.

 

(Svalbardrein in Norwegian)

 

My album of images from Svalbard here.

 

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Kunstinstallation über dem Eingang zum Svalbard Global Seed Vault nahe Longyearbyen auf Spitzbergen.

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Art installation above the entrance of Svalbard Global Seed Vault near Longyearbyen on Svalbard.

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The Seed vault in Svalbard

Svalbard Global Seed Vault, February 2008. Guarded by a frozen polar bear ice-sculpture during the opening.

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Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault by country of origin (original source country) after three years of operation (Feb 2011). www.nordgen.org/seedvault/

The first deposit of 2021 to the Seed Vault brought 30 boxes filled with almost 6,500 seed samples to Svalbard.

Credit: NordGen

Buried beneath the permafrost lies the world’s best chance of survival

 

Teeth-chatteringly close to the North Pole, in the tiny town of Longyearbyen in Svalbard, Norway, you’ll find Cary Fowler’s Global Seed Vault, an air-locked repository buried beneath the permafrost, which houses and protects ...

 

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Beans at the CIAT gene bank in Colombia, which has just sent its latest consignments of seeds for conservation at the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway

 

credit: Neil Palmer (CIAT)

  

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The Norwegian postal service have released a stamp of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on April 15, 2011.

  

The first deposit of 2021 to the Seed Vault brought 30 boxes filled with almost 6,500 seed samples to Svalbard.

Pictured here: Asmund Asdal, Seed Vault Coordinator (left), and Pavel Glukhenkiy, Pole Position taking the boxes from SPGRC out of the truck.

Credit: NordGen

Beans at the CIAT gene bank in Colombia, which has just sent its latest consignments of seeds for conservation at the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway

 

credit: Neil Palmer (CIAT)

 

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Storage box for the NGB Svalbard seed backup storage. This is the demonstration box located at Alnarp. The glass tubes were last used in 1998. This box has the size 235 x 224 x 500 mm (height x width x length). sesto.nordgen.org/sesto/index.php?scp=ngb&thm=picture...

Beans at the CIAT gene bank in Colombia, which has just sent its latest consignments of seeds for conservation at the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway

 

credit: Neil Palmer (CIAT)

 

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Beans at the CIAT gene bank in Colombia, which has just sent its latest consignments of seeds for conservation at the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway

 

credit: Neil Palmer (CIAT)

 

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Credit: Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Photo: Riccardo Gangale

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Beans at the CIAT gene bank in Colombia, which has just sent its latest consignments of seeds for conservation at the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway

 

credit: Neil Palmer (CIAT)

 

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Beans at the CIAT gene bank in Colombia, which has just sent its latest consignments of seeds for conservation at the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway

 

credit: Neil Palmer (CIAT)

 

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Svalbard Global Seed Vault, February 2008. During the opening the vault was guarded by an armed guard and an ice sculptured polar bear.

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Storage box for the NGB Svalbard seed backup storage. The boxes has the outside size 235 x 224 x 500 mm (height x width x length). The height without the lid is 200 mm. The space inside the box has the size 185 x 190 x 430 mm (height x width x length).http://sesto.nordgen.org/sesto/index.php?scp=ngb&thm=pictures&mod=det&id=004223

The first deposit of 2021 to the Seed Vault brought 30 boxes filled with almost 6,500 seed samples to Svalbard.

Credit: NordGen

Beans at the CIAT gene bank in Colombia, which has just sent its latest consignments of seeds for conservation at the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway

 

credit: Neil Palmer (CIAT)

 

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Credit: Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Photo: Riccardo Gangale

“All rights reserved”

The first deposit of 2021 to the Seed Vault brought 30 boxes filled with almost 6,500 seed samples to Svalbard.

Credit: NordGen

Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault by country of origin (original source country) after 4 years of operation (Feb 2012). Status: 741 493 accessions (on 4 284 verified species of 817 genera) from 44 genebank collections representing plant genetic diversity from 231 countries worldwide www.nordgen.org/seedvault/.

pictures around Longyearbyen and Barentsburg, north of the Arctic Circle

Svalbard Global Seed Vault, February 2008. Johan Bäckman giving the boxes a final touch.

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Svalbard Global Seed Vault, February 2008. Before the opening, preparing the shelves for the seed boxes.

Svalbard Global Seed Vault, February 2008. Before the opening, preparing the shelves for the seed boxes.

List of seeds going to Svalbard (please note of the 76 listed, 74 were were sent to Svalbard)

 

credit: Boyce Thompson Arboretum

 

visit the Trust online: www.croptrust.org

Svalbard Global Seed Vault, February 2008, the door to vault 2 - the first vault to receive seeds.

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Svalbard Global Seed Vault, February 2008.

Storage box for the NGB Svalbard seed backup storage. Box number 62 was not yet sent to Svalbard (May 2007). The glass tubes was last used in 1998. Since 2004 the seeds sent to Svalbard has been packaged in aluminium bags. The boxes has the size 235 x 224 x 500 mm (height x width x length).

Svalbard Global Seed Vault, February 2008, the door to vault number 2 where the first seeds are stored

Staff of IRRI’s International Rice Genebank (IRG) prepares over 42,000 rice seed samples from its collection to be sent to Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

 

see related story.

 

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Cary Fowler, Ola Westengen, Edwina Cornish, Tony Gregson, Edwina Cornish, and Amb. James Choi deliver first shipment of seeds to Svalbard from Australia

 

credit: Tone Sund/ Global Crop Diversity Trust

The first seed deposit of forest tree seeds at the Nordic Gene Bank collection and the Svarbard safety deposit store, July 2005. Seeds from commercial seed lot. The picture show the handover from Martin Werner, Skogforsk, Ekebo to Bent Skovmand, Director NGB.

Picea abies (L.) H. Karst. Norway Spruce

Pinus sylvestris L. Scots pine

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The first deposit of 2021 to the Seed Vault brought 30 boxes filled with almost 6,500 seed samples to Svalbard.

Credit: NordGen

Svalbard Global Seed Vault, February 2008, Ola Westengen, Johan Bäckman and Simon Jeppson.

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Beans at the CIAT gene bank in Colombia, which has just sent its latest consignments of seeds for conservation at the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway

 

credit: Neil Palmer (CIAT)

 

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Svalbard Global Seed Vault, February 2008, Johan Bäckman attach the shelf numbers in vault number 2

Svalbard Global Seed Vault, February 2008

The first deposit of 2021 to the Seed Vault brought 30 boxes filled with almost 6,500 seed samples to Svalbard.

Pictured here: Asmund Asdal, Seed Vault Coordinator.

Credit: NordGen

Beans at the CIAT gene bank in Colombia, which has just sent its latest consignments of seeds for conservation at the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway

 

credit: Neil Palmer (CIAT)

 

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The first deposit of 2021 to the Seed Vault brought 30 boxes filled with almost 6,500 seed samples to Svalbard.

Pictured here: Asmund Asdal, Seed Vault Coordinator.

Credit: NordGen

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