Abstract
Vaughan discusses the Arctic vault in Svalbard, Norway. Hundreds of plant species around the world have been backed up at a doomsday vault, in the first big deposit to the Arctic facility since an upgrade to future-proof it against climate change. The vault is designed as the ultimate insurance policy for smaller seed banks around the world if they are affected by extreme weather, conflict, fire and other events. Svalbard is cold enough to keep seeds in the vault safe in the event of a disaster. The first withdrawal from the bank took place in 2015, to help conservationists who lost access to a major seed bank in Aleppo in the Syrian civil war.
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