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Doomsday vault is filling up.

by car1edb | February 27, 2009 at 03:41 pm

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The Svalbard vault is inside a mountain on a remote Arctic island, is slowly being filled. Originally devised as a solution to world famine and now labeled as a "backup", part financed by the world bank. Just in case anything should happen to the worlds plant life in the future. Guess they were a bit late with the 100s of species that have already been lost. -But better that nothing, so be nice to the banks!

I hope they're taking all native species in their original state that aren't GM mutants.

Speaking of hoarding - the WHO is currently hoarding of H5N1 dna sequences, think they're ramping up operations for a pending pandemic?

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The four-tonne shipment takes the number of seeds stored in the frozen repository to more than 20 million. <br><br> The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built 130m (426ft) inside a mountain, aims to protect the world's food crop species against natural and human disasters. <br><br> The £5m ($7m) facility took 12 months to build and opened in February 2008.

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sara star

at 18:43 on February 27th, 2009

I never heard of this seed vault. Thanks for the info. Sounds like a modern-day version of Noah's Ark.

I've written several posts on the bird flu...

In recent months, the increasing lack of transparency in reports on H5N1 outbreaks has reached an alarming level. China created concern when 8 confirmed cases of H5N1 were reported in January this year.