In the punishing cold of an Arctic mountain in the remote, Sal bard Islands, a doorway leads to what's

meant to be the safest place on earth: “Good thing they bricked up the road.” Scientists are on their way approaching
through (1) and I'm with them as they carry a precious cargo of seeds to be kept out of the way
of whatever climate change might bring. “I mean how often do you get these deliveries as we have delivered three
times a year.” The box of seeds is about to go through (2) . There are half a dozen in all. “I've
just come down the access tunnel that's cut into the mountain here. This place is a hundred and thirty metres above
sea level because if the worst happens and global warming melts all of the polar ice caps this project will still be safe
because this is the next stage.” The deeper inside the mountain we go, the more the temperature drops. The store is
designed to survive any natural disaster.

- The seeds can last here for a very long time. It depends on what crop it is but some of the crops may survive (3)

- You're really imagining this place functioning keeping the seeds say for 4000 years.

-Well, it's difficult to say. I'm sure that the pharaohs thought that their pyramids would last long and they did.

The last barrier to the store itself. Inside here it's minus 18 Celsius. The rows of shelves are(4)
from all over the world. There are samples of nearly half of the most important food crops brought here just in case.
“Samples of seeds used to be held in glass test tubes. Now they're kept in little plastic packets and there are more
than 800,000 of these in this fault and everywhere you look there are examples of why this place matters.” There are
seeds from Syria plants that are good at coping with drought and some have just been (5)
.When harvests are ruined by extremes of weather, having backup copies of key seeds is essential. Another threat is
flooding, which can damage national stores of seeds. This happened in the Philippines and with industrial scale
farming, most food comes from just (6) . So keeping different genetic types help to guarantee
supplies. “It is for the survival mankind in the future. I mean we need the diversity, all the different kinds of plants
material to get foods for the future. We have a lot of problems seeing us now: climate change environmental
problems and to tackle that we need a genetic variation.”So in these remote mountains this place is meant to be (7)
u insurance policy for a warming world. David truck Mont BBC news in Svalbard in the
Arctic.
 In the punishing cold of an Arctic mountain in the remote, Sal bard Islands, a doorway leads to what's
meant to be the safest place on earth: “Good thing they bricked up the road.” Scientists are on their way approaching
through (1) this isolated and hostile terrain and I'm with them as they carry a precious cargo of seeds to be kept
out of the way of whatever climate change might bring. “I mean how often do you get these deliveries as we have
delivered three times a year.” The box of seeds is about to go through (2) the first line of security. There are half a
dozen in all. “I've just come down the access tunnel that's cut into the mountain here. This place is a hundred and
thirty metres above sea level because if the worst happens and global warming melts all of the polar ice caps this
project will still be safe because this is the next stage.” The deeper inside the mountain we go, the more the
temperature drops. The store is designed to survive any natural disaster.

- The seeds can last here for a very long time. It depends on what crop it is but some of the crops may survive for (3)
more than 4,000 years.

- You're really imagining this place functioning keeping the seeds say for 4000 years.

-Well, it's difficult to say. I'm sure that the pharaohs thought that their pyramids would last long and they did.

The last barrier to the store itself. Inside here it's minus 18 Celsius. The rows of shelves are (4) filling up
with seeds from all over the world. There are samples of nearly half of the most important food crops brought here
just in case. “Samples of seeds used to be held in glass test tubes. Now they're kept in little plastic packets and there
are more than 800,000 of these in this fault and everywhere you look there are examples of why this place matters.”
There are seeds from Syria plants that are good at coping with drought and some have just been (5) returned to the
Middle East. When harvests are ruined by extremes of weather, having backup copies of key seeds is essential.
Another threat is flooding, which can damage national stores of seeds. This happened in the Philippines and with
industrial scale farming, most food comes from just (6) a dozen varieties of plants. So keeping different genetic
types help to guarantee supplies. “It is for the survival mankind in the future. I mean we need the diversity, all the
different kinds of plants material to get foods for the future. We have a lot of problems seeing us now: climate
change environmental problems and to tackle that we need a genetic variation.”So in these remote mountains this
place is meant to be (7) a safeguard against apocalypse, an insurance policy for a warming world. David truck
Mont BBC news in Svalbard in the Arctic.