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"If anything does ever happen it's really important to have a backup and Svalbard's an amazing opportunity to be involved in the international effort to safeguard agricultural history,"she said.
"This is the ultimate backup, it is the best thing we could do in terms of risk management,"he said.
"We've been able to restore the seed bank collections that were endangered, under threat and basically lost because of war in Syria,"he said.
"Naturally inside the vault it's very cold, below freezing, and in those conditions we expect everything to be just fine — hundreds, indeed thousands of years from now,"Dr Fowler said.