Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai attends the opening of the The Global Seed Vault on February 26, 2008 in Longyearbyen. The Global Seed Vault has been built in a mountainside cavern on the island of Svalbard, around 1000 km from the North Pole, to store the world’s crop seeds in case of a disaster. By Daniel Sannum Lauten/AFP/Getty Images.
