Svalbard’s seed vault will receive rare new deposits
The Arctic repository will get seeds from Sudan, Uganda, New Zealand, Germany and Lebanon — including a deposit from the first organization to seeds.

OSLO — A vault built on an Arctic mountainside to preserve the world’s crop seeds from war, disease and other catastrophes will receive new deposits on Monday, including one from the first organization that made a withdrawal from the facility.
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