🕉️Ⅴ.Devil's Base in the Cold Coast Islands
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This is a frozen Eden, where life can remain forever, no matter what happens.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault-Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a non-profit storage vault built by the Norwegian government on the Svalbard Islands in the Arctic Ocean. It preserves crop seeds worldwide and is the world's largest seed vault.
We will introduce it and then look for special symbols, characters, and events for comparative analysis. The seed bank is located in Longyearbyen, the capital of the archipelago. It was built in cooperation with several international genetic and biological organizations and funded by the Norwegian government. It prevents the loss of specific seed genes during large-scale regional or global crises and further preserves and backs up seed samples. Therefore, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is also known as the "Doomsday Seed Vault" or "Doomsday Cellar," The "Noah's Ark" of global agriculture.
The 45 million Norwegian kroner construction cost of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is fully funded by the Norwegian government, and operating expenses are shared with the Global Crop Diversity Trust. The foundation's central funding comes from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation conferences, governments, and international organizations.
Since 1984, the Nordic Gene Bank has frozen seeds in Svalbard's abandoned No. 3 mine. In January 2008, the Nordic Gene Bank merged with two other Nordic gene conservation organizations to form the Nordic Genetic Resources Center. In 2001, the Norwegian government completed the International Treaty on Crop Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and opened it to all governments for contracting. After that, Biodiversity International approached the Norwegian government and proposed establishing a global institution in Svalbard. The Norwegian government was influenced by receiving support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Consultative Organization for International Agricultural Research, and other organizations. It committed to funding the construction of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in October 2004 and was assisted in its construction by the Global Crop Diversity Trust and the Nordic Genetic Resources Center.
On June 19, 2006, the groundbreaking ceremony was held with the participation of the leaders of the five Nordic countries including the Prime Minister of Norway, the Prime Minister of Sweden, the Prime Minister of Finland, the Prime Minister of Denmark and the Prime Minister of Iceland In 2007, the Norwegian government, the Global Crop Diversity Trust and the Nordic Genetic Resources Center signed a tripartite long-term cooperation agreement The agreement stipulates that the seed bank will be constructed and maintained by the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food and the Norwegian Public Buildings and Property Agency, and will be closely connected with the Global Crop Diversity Center The Nordic Genetic Resources Center is responsible for management, operation and recording, and maintains long-term contact with gene banks around the world The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the Consultative Organization for International Agricultural Research and other organizations form an International Advisory Panel (International Advisory Panel). ), responsible for supervising, guiding, and making recommendations on the management of the seed bank. The seed bank was officially completed and opened on February 26, 2008. The then President of the European Union Executive Committee, José Manuel Barroso, the founder of the Green Belt Movement, Wangari Maathai, Nearly 150 people, including the then Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg, attended the event.
The first seeds arrived in January 2008, and about 5% of the seed samples came from the Center for Genetic Resources of the Netherlands (CGN), a subsidiary of Wageningen University in the Netherlands. In 2009, on the first anniversary of the opening of the seed bank, it stored samples of more than 90,000 kinds of crop seeds, with a total number of seeds of about 20 million and a total weight of about 4 tons. These included 32 potato genes from the National Gene Banks of Ireland, 20,000 genes from the United States Agricultural Research Service, and others from international seed researchers in Canada, Switzerland, Colombia, Mexico, and Syria. By then, the seed bank had stored one-third of the world's major crop varieties.
His designers said that the seed vault was built at an altitude of 130 meters. After calculations, even if all the glaciers in the Antarctic and Arctic melted, the place would not be flooded.
To ensure the absolute safety of the "Doomsday Cellar," according to the provisions of the "Svalbard Treaty," the sovereignty of the islands belongs to Norway, but more than 40 contracting countries, including China, can carry out commercial development activities on the islands The islands themselves Also defined as a demilitarized zone, the seed vault is located on Svalbard to minimize the risk of it being damaged by war.
In this case, most crop seeds have the potential to remain viable for hundreds of years. Pea, wheat, barley, and other seeds can endure up to 1,000 years, while sorghum seeds can last over 10,000 years.
In addition, this seed vault is built very solidly, with very good explosion-proof and sealing properties. There are five doors from the entrance to the three storage rooms, which can withstand significant earthquakes and nuclear bomb attacks. It did withstand a 6.2-magnitude earthquake. There are also armed personnel surrounding the seed vault, who patrol day and night to protect the safety of the seed vault.
Who initiated the construction of this seed bank? Are you preparing for the end of the world?
Officials claim that the purpose of building this seed bank is to prevent plants from becoming extinct due to natural and man-made disasters and to provide botanists with seed genes.
We believe that naming the "Doomsday Seed Vault" is not straightforward. The founders knew that these situations were bound to happen shortly. Perhaps investors had foreseen the catastrophe that might happen in the future, so they built this Plant a "doomsday seed bank."
An exciting list of investors clearly shows its creators: many foundations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Syngenta Foundation, etc., the entire operating funds Shared by the U.K., Australia, Germany, the U.S., and these foundations and companies.
Isn't it interesting why such a vast project is invested in and constructed not by the state but by these foundations, and these investors all have a common identity? You already know from the previous content that "doomsday "Seed Vault" is the key to restarting the Earth when the end comes. That interesting meeting was in 2005, and the "Doomsday Seed Vault" construction was officially confirmed in November 2004. Is there a stronger connection between them? What they see as "Noah's Ark" is, to us, the "Devil's Base."
