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They requested 130 of 325 boxes

• vtlynch 11y ago
  "ICARDA wants almost 130 boxes out of 325 it had deposited in the vault, containing a total of 116,000 samples." Its possible that an entire population of one species' "archive" is being requested ,though hopefully they wouldnt do that because of the obvious risks.
  • freehunter 11y ago
    It does seem like it would make more sense to wait until the conflict is over before getting the seeds? What's the chance that the seeds could be destroyed again before the conflict is over?
    • rtkwe 11y ago
      They moved to Beirut in Lebanon, they're fairly safe. Other than ISIS (which is on the opposite side and expanding east) the spill over from Syria is mostly economic and refugees instead of fighting.
      • luso_brazilian 11y ago
        They are not expanding East. Coming from Iraq and moving into Deir Ez Zour and then Palmyra it's basically the Mosul - Beirut suggested route [1] via Google Maps. They are at the doors of Aleppo and expanding in the suburbs of Damascus as we speak. The situation there is very serious. There are many economic refugees in this migratory wave but I don't believe many of them are from Syria. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Mosul,+Iraq/Beirut,+Lebanon/@34.7069182,39.9449429,7.5z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x40079464db1a88b9:0x9745d74edd0f0930!2m2!1d43.1640004!2d36.3566484!1m5!1m1!1s0x151f17215880a78f:0x729182bae99836b4!2m2!1d35.4954794!2d33.8886289!5i1 https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Mosul,+Iraq/Beirut,+Lebanon/...