A safe keeps all the seeds of the world to preserve genetic diversity in case of global catastrophe.

The global reserve Svalbard seed is an underground vault on the island Spitsbergen intended to keep in a secure place seeds of all food crops in the world and so preserve genetic diversity. A real "vegetable Noah's Ark" protecting the genetic diversity of conflicts and natural disasters.
Norway dug near the small town of Longyearbyen on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard about 1,120 km from the North Pole, the vault is managed by a tripartite agreement between the Norwegian Government, the international organization Global Crop Diversity Trust and the gene bank safe nordique.Ce reinforced concrete is there to save a duplicate of the seeds of food plants worldwide, the 863,969 different samples of seeds stored in it are mainly composed of rice, sorghum, wheat and corn. But northern European countries there have recently brought 218 pine seeds and épicéas.Inauguré in 2008, the warehouse, also called "Doomsday Vault" is buried more than 120 meters inside a mountain, it is ultra-secure and ensures optimal preservation conditions at a temperature