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Modern Day Noah's Ark Dying

Posted by Hemos on from the down-into-the-great-blue-under dept.

hype7 writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is running a story about the Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development's Gene Bank, which appears to be running out of funding. It seems a terrible shame, because the Bank has managed to accumulate thousands of Australian and foreign endangered species; a kind of modern day Noah's Ark. At the moment it's in limbo, using funds diverted from other projects to keep it in ER, but the prospects aren't looking good."

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  1. Re:National Seed Storage Lab by silentbozo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wasn't Gordon Moore promoting a several million dollar foundation that he founded for preserving biodiversity?

    Might be worth it to hook these institutions up with the money. Does anyone have a definitive list of all the biodiversity conservation efforts that need funding?

    In the meantime, concerned geeks/citizens can resort to the Paypal/Amazon tip jar while all the bureaucratic garbage gets sorted out to get these institutions hooked up with major foundations in the long term.

  2. Frozen Zoo by sjh · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The San Diego zoo has dna from over 4000 species
    on ice.

    http://www.sandiegozoo.org/cres/frozen.html

  3. Re:Text of the article in case server dies... by Capsaicin · · Score: 2, Interesting
    what new species have developed lately?

    HIV

    --
    Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke