The Svalbard Global Seed Bank
The world is a great place to live in. Although it isn't perfect, there are many wonderful initiatives out there created by people who strive to do good for society, for mankind, for this earth. If only there were more initiatives out there. On the iPad Alex had downloaded the National Geographic Magazine which has such a wonderful application that I could not stop reading and interacting with it. One article that really struck me and one that reminded me of a documentary I had watched before, pertained to Svalbard's Global Seed Bank . What is it? Why do we need a seed bank? What kind of seeds do they hold? You mean seeds, as it those from plants? The Svalbard Global Seed Bank has a mission to be a safety net for the world's accidental lost of diversity in traditional genebanks. Put simply, it is a place where samples of plant seeds sent from all over the world are stored for safekeeping. A specially designed vault ...