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2025-03-25 04:30 UTC
@Blueteamsherpa@infosec.exchange Thank you for flagging. I’m glad Europeans have a seed vault as well. “The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago.”
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@samueljohnson@mstdn.social 2025-03-25 10:49
@simona@sciencemastodon.com @Blueteamsherpa@infosec.exchange It's not a European seed vault. It's a global seed vault. A backup for the germplasm held under UN auspices by international agricultural research organisations mostly located in developing countries, eg the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines. They are in politically unstable places and frequently subject to natural disasters. More than one, eg that formerly in Syria (ICARDA), has been destroyed during civil war.