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Today, there are about 1400 seed banks around the world. These keep seed varieties from all continents safe in the event of a large scale global crisis, such as a famine. One of the largest seed banks lies inside a mountain on Norway’s island of Spitsbergan, just 1300 kilometers from the north pole. This is a backup for all the world’s other seed banks.
In 1996, director cary Fowler commented that the seed bank’s opening “mark a(n) historic turning point in safeguarding the world’s crop diversity “billions of seeds are now kept there. They are stored in a permanently chilled, earthquake-free zone 120 meters above sea level. This should allow the seeds to remain high and dry, even if the polar ice caps melt.