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Seeds have been withdrawn from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to replace seeds in a gene bank near the Syrian city of Aleppo, which has been damaged by the war. The Global Seed Vault, situated in the Norwegian Arctic around 1,300 kilometres from the North Pole, contains crates of seeds sent for safe and secure long-term storage in case a catastrophe or environmental disaster wipes them out elsewhere on earth. Marie Haga is Executive Director of the Crop Trust which runs the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

(Photo: Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. Credit: Daniel Sannum Lauten/AFP/Getty Images)