Take a tour inside the doomsday seed vault tucked away in a remote Arctic location.
Tucked away in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago is the Global Seed Vault; a backup facility for the world’s crops should things go awry. The building itself looks like the lair of a James Bond villain.
The tour opens with an epic overview of the Seed Bank’s entrance taken from a drone which can be viewed in nighttime and daytime. Another shot of the secretive entrance from the ground underlines what a unique structure the Seed Bank is. Located halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, it is not accessible for most.
“It is a bit like being in a cathedral. It has high ceilings and when you’re standing inside the mountain, there’s hardly any sound. All you can hear is yourself,” Lise Lykke Steffensen, executive director of NordGen,“When you open the door [to the seed banks], it’s minus 18 degrees Celsius — the international standard for conserving seeds — which is very, very cold. Then you see all of the boxes with seeds from all of these countries. I’ve been so many times and I’m still curious.
In 2012, it helped restore the national seed bank of the Philippines after it was damaged by flooding. It also helps farmers in Zambia who suffer from dry conditions, providing them with a type of grass called sorghum which is used for flour and grows rapidly in arid lands.
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