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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai of Kenya attends the opening of the Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen
26 Feb 2008
Source: Reuters
 
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai of Kenya attends the opening of the Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen February 26, 2008. Norway launched a Noah's ark of the plant kingdom on Tuesday that will protect crop seeds, one of mankind's most precious resources, from natural disaster inside an Arctic mountainside. REUTERS/Bob Strong (NORWAY)
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