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Today the Vault holds over 500,000 samples. To date 390,052 total seed samples have been deposited with Trust support. The project is also financing the deposit of samples from the international collections of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The Trust is currently supporting more than 100 institutes worldwide to regenerate unique accessions and deposit a safety duplicate sample in the Vault. The Trust is therefore committed to supporting ongoing operational costs, and is assisting developing countries with preparing, packaging and transporting samples of unique accessions from their genebanks to the Arctic. The Trust considers the Vault an essential component of a rational and secure global system for conserving the diversity of all our crops. The Vault is managed in partnership between the Trust, Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen) and the Government of Norway. The Vault’s construction was funded by the Norwegian government as a service to the world, and Norway also contributes an annual sum towards its operation. Permafrost and thick rock ensure that, even without electricity, the samples remain frozen. For nearly four months a year the islands are enveloped in total darkness. Remote by any standards, Svalbard’s airport is in fact the northernmost point in the world to be serviced by scheduled flights – usually one lands a day. Svalbard is a group of islands nearly a thousand kilometres north of mainland Norway. The Vault is dug into a mountainside near the village of Longyearbyen, Svalbard. However, it was only with the coming into force of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and with it an agreed international legal framework for conserving and accessing crop diversity, that the Vault became a practical possibility. The Seed Vault is an answer to a call from the international community to provide the best possible assurance of safety for the world’s crop diversity, and in fact the idea for such a facility dates back to the 1980s. Unique varieties of our most important crops are lost whenever any such disaster strikes: securing duplicates of all collections in a global facility provides an insurance policy for the world’s food supply. to store their seeds in the vault.The world's seed collections are vulnerable to a wide range of threats - civil strife, war, natural catastrophes, and, more routinely but no less damagingly, poor management, lack of adequate funding, and equipment failures. The Cherokee Nation will be the first indigenous tribe in the U.S. The seeds are all culturally significant to the tribe and predate European settlement in North America. This is where the Cherokee Nation is storing nine of their traditional, heirloom seeds: Cherokee White Eagle Corn, Cherokee Long Greasy Beans, Cherokee Trail of Tears Beans, Cherokee Turkey Gizzard black and brown beans, Cherokee Candy Roaster Squash, and a few other corn varieties. This is where hundreds of thousands of seeds have been donated, preserved, and stored in a cold vault that's buried in permafrost, where it can hopefully stay frozen for at least 200 years in the event of a power outage. It's called the Svalbard Global Seed Vault - a metal fortress, embedded 400 feet into a mountain, that lies on an island halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. There's a 'doomsday vault' out in Norway, where nearly a million seeds have been stored in case of an apocalyptic event like nuclear war, irreversible climate change, or any other extreme disasters we can't foresee.