Oak trees are iconic. They're also threatened with extinction. San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is committed to protecting these keystone species.

It’s a familiar story: flames rage through Southern California landscapes. Do these burns benefit ecosystems, or do they damage habitats and reduce biodiversity?

Dive into the depths of water pollution issues and explore solutions for a more sustainable future.

Regenerative medicine is proving to be a vital new therapeutic tool, offering vast new possibilities in veterinary care.

SDZWA and our partners use customized drones to collect killer whale breath and monitor orca health in real time.

The Animal Biobanking for Conservation Specialist Group is organizing a worldwide effort to collect, bank, and share genetic resources.

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.

In the face of increasing biodiversity loss, biobanks like ours play an essential role in conservation.