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CONTACT:joy.hayward@zsl.org
ORGANIZER:Zoological Society of London
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DESCRIPTION:The Frozen Ark is a global innovative conservation project that
  has taken on the ambitious task of preserving genetic material from the wo
 rld's endangered species before they go extinct.
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\nAnimal species are dy
 ing out at a rate exceeded only during the three greatest environmental dis
 asters in the history of the world. The project aims to ensure that the inf
 ormation of millions of years of evolution is not lost\, that future scient
 ists will have the knowledge of the world's lost animals and that genetic m
 aterial will be available to aid captive breeding programmes.
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\nThe Froz
 en Ark is collecting\, preserving and storing tissue\, DNA\, viable somatic
  cells and where possible\, the gametes and embryos\, from the many thousan
 ds of vertebrate and invertebrate species expected to disappear within the 
 next few decades. Samples are being obtained from captive breeding programm
 es\, from zoos and aquaria and from wild populations. The project\, which h
 as been set up as a charity\, is being coordinated from the University of N
 ottingham with major input from ZSL and the Natural History Museum. A growi
 ng number of Consortium Members of The Frozen Ark in the UK and around the 
 world are setting up their own national Frozen Arks. A key component will b
 e to establish a global database of what species already exist in establish
 ed collections and which species are most urgently in need of collection.
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\nIf this genetic resource is not preserved\, vast amounts of information
  about an animal's relationships\, evolution\, genetics\, development\, and
  ecology will be irreplaceably lost\, captive breeding programmes will fail
  due to a lack of genetic diversity and the possibility of bring back extin
 ct animals as future technologies allow will no longer be a future option.

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\n_Organised by Professor Bill Holt\, Institute of Zoology\, ZSL_
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\n*
 _Talks_*
\n> The Frozen Ark - an introduction - Dr Ann Clarke - Co-founder 
 of the Frozen Ark Project and Managing Trustee at The Frozen Ark Office at 
 the University of Nottingham
\n> The Frozen Ark: priorities for collection 
 - Professor Phil Rainbow - Keeper of Zoology\, The Natural History Museum\,
  London
\n> Challenges and Opportunities: Cryobanking of material from enda
 ngered fish species - Professor David Rawson - LIRANS Institute of Research
  in the Applied Natural Sciences\, University of Bedfordshire
\n> Cryobanks
 : how can we use them to support endangered species? - Professor Bill Holt 
 - Institute of Zoology\, ZSL
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SUMMARY:The Frozen Ark Project
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