Title:
Conservationists plan to build a giant doomsday vault for threatened coral reefs
Author:
Luke Dormehl
Published:
Digital Trends, 3 November 2020
From the article:
Since it opened more than a decade ago, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen has served as an archive of the world’s plant seeds in the event of a global crisis. Now, North Queensland, Australia, is getting its own version — only this time, it’s about backing up the world’s coral supplies in a giant, ultrasecure above-ground bunker. And in this case, the crisis is already in progress.