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About us
Who we are
“We have a duty to preserve nature because it is beautiful”
The Frozen Ark Project strives towards a world where extinction rates are sustainable and not created by man. Where the beauty, splendour and practical solutions found in all species is noted and used by man for the good of mankind and for the good of all life on Earth.
Our Mission
To collect, preserve and store tissue, gametes, viable cells and DNA from endangered animals for use both in conservation programmes and to enable society to benefit itself and all life on earth. The project focuses on the thousands of animals that are threatened with extinction.
Our Plan
To support the establishment of genome resource banks of endangered animals in many countries, to establish a database listing where genetic materials are stored worldwide and identifying which species are most in need of sampling.
What we are about:
Conservation and Cryopreservation of Biological Materials:
In the future, conservations efforts may depend on stored biological samples. The Frozen Ark supports these efforts by collecting and cataloguing the DNA, and if possible the cells or gametes, of endangered animals before they go extinct.
Research:
The Ark aims to understand how best to prepare and store samples from a very large variety of species, each with their own specific technical challenges, with the aim of making these samples available for researchers and conservationists.
Education:
Our mission is to educate society, including our colleagues in conservation and other scientific disciplines, through outreach at public events, schools, and at professional meetings. We aim to inform conservationists on the need to preserve genetic material, facilitate the development of best practice for cryopreservation, and to lobby governments on the need for a global effort in cryopreservation. The establishment of comprehensive databases will enable us to monitor the rates and diversities of species extinction as a tool to inform and lobby.
Future Proofing:
We won’t know what we’ve lost if we don’t have a record. Can we restore the beauty we have enjoyed for our children’s children? Can we find new materials, new medicine, new solutions from what Nature has already tried and tested?
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