The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle, was officially opened in a ceremony in which were deposited 100 million seeds from a hundred countries around the world.The project, promoted by the Norwegian Government, the Global Crop Diversity Trust and the Nordic Gene Bank, allows the creation of a deposit banks, insurance duplicates of seeds from food crops, ensuring their survival in phenomena as climate change and disasters naturales.Situada near Longyearbyen, on an island in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, the vault named as the end of the world or Noah's Ark, has been excavated to 130 feet deep in a mountain of sandstone impervious to the volcanic activity, earthquakes, radiation, and the rising of sea level.The Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Nobel Peace Prize 2004, the Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai, were responsible for putting in p inside the piles seed varieties of rice of 104 countries.The use "stronger" against the climatic change at the ceremony, which came the European Commission President Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, Stoltenberg described the installation of "fundamental building block of human civilization," while the director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, Cary Fowler, spoke of the appeal "stronger" for address threats such as climate change or energy shortages, food and host vault initially agua.La 268,000 distinct samples of seeds, with a total capacity of 4.5 million and 2,000 million samples of seeds-which have been stored in sealed packages inside sealed boxes in each of the three rooms that divide the vault, located at the end of corridor of 125 m from seeds remain stored at a temperature of -18 degrees Celsius, which ensures low metabolic activity and a perfectly preserved for centuries, in case of power failure, the permafrost Arctic (permanently frozen layer) of act as a coolant natural.Veinte foreign institutions around the world have sent samples to participate in the project, including the Mexican International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT), the Colombian International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and International Potato Center (CIP) of nearly ninety cultures Perú.Semillas The seed vault will house about ninety cultures as alfalfa, asparagus, beans, barley, basil, spinach, carrots, lentils, tomato, onion, potato, peas, spinach, wheat and arroz.Se variety is rare or traditional types produced in developing countries, excluding fruit trees and medicinal plants and genetically modificados.Sólo if all sources of such seeds have been destroyed or have been exhausted may be removed from the warehouse, unless donor countries, who are the owners of the seeds - so requieran.El Norwegian Government has taken the construction of the facility, budgeted at 50 million Norwegian kroner (6.4 million euros, 9.4 billion dollars), while transport of seeds and future maintenance of the vault shall be provided by the Global Crop Diversity Cultivos.El considered seed store full of food crops in the world has with the highest security measures, and its roof and entry have been decorated by Norwegian artists with steel and mirrors, so it reflects light in summer and winter polar turns a turquoise and white, making it visible to hundreds of meters of that order distancia.Con create this dome? is being prepared for what comes over the years, to the great cataclysm of 21/12/2012? think? no one tells us anything, but only one thing can not hide what will happen now that the Maya were not wrong in his study of the universe and earth and galactic cycles.
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