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Consortium
"Saving the
DNA and the viable cells of the world's endangered animals"
The Frozen Ark Consortium is a worldwide group of institutions. It is coordinated from an office within the new Frozen Ark Unit at the School of Biology at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Here the Charity is based, the web site and database are being developed, and the panels of experts are being established. It is also the centre for communication between members of the Consortium, Trustees, the Advisory Group, and individual expert panels. It is also involved in fund-raising. There is a cell and DNA laboratory which aims to study how best to collect and preserve the biological materials of particular endangered animals. The various methods of preservation will be evaluated. They include freezing, freeze-drying and the methods most appropriate for collecting in the field.
The worldwide group of institution members of the
Frozen Ark Consortium consists of:-
| The Natural History Museum |
Cromwell Road, London, UK. |
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| The Zoological Society of London |
Outer Circle, Regent's Park, London, UK. |
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| Twycross Zoo |
Burton Road, Atherstone, Warwickshire, UK. |
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The Animal Gene Resource Centre |
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. |
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| LaCONES |
The Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species (LaCONES), Hyderabad, India. |
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| CRES |
Conservation and Research for Endangered Species (CRES), The Zoological Society of San Diego, California, USA. |
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| The Ambrose Monell Laboratory |
The American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. |
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| The Wildlife Biological Resource Centre |
Endangered Wildlife Trust, The National Zoo, Pretoria, South Africa. |
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| The North of England Zoological Society |
Chester, UK. |
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| Cryobiology Research Group |
Luton Institute of Research in the Applied Natural Sciences, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK. |
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| The Reproductive Biology Unit |
Perth Zoo, Western Australia. |
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| The New Zealand Centre for Conservation Medicine |
Auckland Zoological Park, New Zealand. |
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| Coldgene |
Norway |
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| Cryo-Brehm Deutsche Zellbank fur Wildtiere |
Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Lubeck, Germany |
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| Leibniz Institute for Zoo & Wildlife (IZW) |
Berlin, Germany. |
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For further information
please contact the Frozen Ark secretariat at Frozen.Ark@nottingham.ac.uk. |
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