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Friday, November 13, 2020

AUSTRALIA - Conservationists plan to build a giant doomsday vault for threatened coral reefs

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.