19/11/13

Svalbard and two Global Seed Banks

Svalbard, a natural paradise?



WHAT IS THIS CONSTRUCTION?
A VAULT, WHAT FOR?? FIND IT OUT!!!!


If you control the oil, you control the country; 
if you control food, you control the population.                 - Henry Kissinger


Inaugurated in February 2008, this is "frozen Noah’s Ark" . 



On this God-forsaken island Bill Gates is investing tens of his millions along with the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto Corporation, Syngenta Foundation
and the Government of Norway, among others, in what is called the ‘doomsday seed bank.’ Officially the project is named the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard island group. 
"Doomsday Seed Vault" in the Arctic
Retrieved 21st  July, 2013, from

http://www.voltairenet.org/article162545.html





The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership, launched in year 2000, 
is the largest ex situ plant conservation project in the world. 
Its focus is on global plant life faced with the threat of extinction and plants of most use for the future. 
The seeds we save are conserved outside their native habitat.







Svalbard