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Caring for Andean bears at the San Diego Zoo leads to remarkable breakthroughs that support conservation of the species worldwide.
New Study Shows Polar Bears Annually Provide Millions of Kilograms of Food, Supporting a Vast Arctic Scavenger Network
How wildlife trafficking affects turtle and tortoise populations in North America.
We’re doing the impossible. Or at least, what was once considered impossible.
30 Years of Hope, Friendship, and Collaboration for Giant Panda Conservation
SAN DIEGO (Nov. 30, 2023) – Scientists at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance have achieved a major milestone in saving wildlife species: With a blue-eyed black lemur’s cells recently added to its Wildlife Biodiversity Bank’s Frozen Zoo®, the nonprofit conservation organization’s unique collection of genetic material now contains 11,00o individual cell lines from more than 1,250 species and subspecies—some critically endangered. No other biobank in the world has a comparable number of living cell lines, with the potential to reverse losses of genetic diversity and contribute to population sustainability for endangered and threatened wildlife species.
Biodiversity banking is a critical component of conservation, and the need for it is more urgent than ever.
SAN DIEGO (Oct. 11, 2023) – San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has been recognized for its expertise in wildlife biobanking, and has partnered with the Species Survival Commission (SSC) of the world’s largest conservation organization—the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)—to form the new Center for Species Survival: Biodiversity Banking. The new center is the first ever to have a strategy focus rather than a taxonomic one.