Construction of ‘Doomsday Vault’ Begins
February 23, 2007| |
Construction for the Svalbard International Seed Vault, or the “Doomsday Vault” as the media described it, has begun and is due to be completed in September 2007. The seed vault is an answer to a call from the international community to provide the best possible assurance of safety for the world’s crop diversity. The idea for a global genebank has been around since the 1980s, but it was only with the coming into force of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources, and an agreed international legal framework for conserving and accessing crop diversity, that the seed vault became a practical possibility. The Svalbard International Seed Vault will be the ultimate safety net for the world’s most important natural resource.
The complete news release is available at http://www.croptrust.org/main/arctic.php?itemid=211.
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