Norway’s Ark Designed to Save World’s Seeds
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From Times Wire Reports
Norway on Monday began construction of an Arctic seed bank that is intended to be a “Noah’s Ark” of global crop samples, protecting them from extinction.
The $4.8-million vault near Longyearbyen on the island of Svalbard, in the Arctic Circle, will hold as many as 3 million types of seeds from all over the world, according to the Norwegian Agriculture and Food Ministry. The bank is scheduled to open in September 2007.
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