The Seed Vault safeguards duplicates of 1,214,827 seed samples from almost every country in the world, with room for millions more. Its purpose is to backup gene bank collections to secure the foundation of our future food supply.
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1. Global Seed Vault becomes more important as climate change [PBS]
2. Artic World Archive [Wikipedia]
3. Gene Bank [Wikipedia]
4. Genesys [website]
5. Lack Of Funding, Seed Banks Face a World of Challenges [Smithsonian Magazine]
6. Pavlovsk Experimental Station [Wikipedia]
7. The men who starved to death to save the world's seeds [Russia Beyond]
8. Center for Plant Conservation [Save Plants Org]
9. Organic Seed Alliance [website]
10. What is a Seed Bank? [Woodland Trust]
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