Source: Dan Nosowitz, MODERN FARMER, 3/25/21


It would include genetic material from all known animal, plant, and fungi species on Earth. There are several initiatives looking to preserve genetic material from plants; the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the far north of Norway is probably the most famous.  The idea behind such projects is that Earth is losing its biodiversity at alarming rates, that it will probably continue to lose more and that we should, somehow, try to save genetic material in the event of a crisis.

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