Thousands Of Crop Varieties Depart For Arctic Seed Vault: “ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2008) – At the end of January, more than 200,000 crop varieties from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East – drawn from vast seed collections maintained by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) – will be shipped to a remote island near the Arctic Circle, where they will be stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV), a facility capable of preserving their vitality for thousands of years.”
We must share some genes with squirrels 
