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More than 1,2 million seed samples from almost every country in the world are being preserved in a "doomsday seed vault" in the frigid Norwegian Arctic. The grey wedge-shaped building that protrudes from a mountain on the remote island of Spitsbergen houses the precious collection, called the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
Countries deposit copies of the seeds they hold in their own banks, and the Svalbard facility keeps them safe: The seeds remain the property of the depositing country, to be withdrawn in the event their own stockpile is compromised. In 2015, for example, seeds from the vault were used to restart the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas after its Aleppo seed bank had to be abandoned during the Syrian civil war.
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