Tag: Preparedness

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened for its 70th deposit on 17 June, receiving 15,387 new seed samples from 11 genebanks across four continents. The collection now stands at 1,401,285 samples, stored under permafrost deep inside a mountain on Spitsbergen. The facility is managed jointly by the Norwegian Government, the Nordic Genetic Resource Center, and…