Frozen Ark Web

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. link
The Zoological Society of London Outer Circle, Regent's Park, London, UK. link
Twycross Zoo Burton Road, Atherstone, Warwickshire, UK. link
The Animal Gene Resource Centre Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. link
LaCONES The Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species (LaCONES), Hyderabad, India. link
CRES Conservation and Research for Endangered Species (CRES), The Zoological Society of San Diego, California, USA. link
The Ambrose Monell Laboratory The American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. link
The Wildlife Biological Resource Centre Endangered Wildlife Trust, The National Zoo, Pretoria, South Africa. link
The North of England Zoological Society Chester, UK. link
Cryobiology Research Group Luton Institute of Research in the Applied Natural Sciences, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK. link
The Reproductive Biology Unit Perth Zoo, Western Australia. link
The New Zealand Centre for Conservation Medicine Auckland Zoological Park, New Zealand. link
Coldgene Norway link
Cryo-Brehm Deutsche Zellbank fur Wildtiere Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Lubeck, Germany link
Leibniz Institute for Zoo & Wildlife (IZW) Berlin, Germany. link

For further information please contact the Frozen Ark secretariat at Frozen.Ark@nottingham.ac.uk.

Copyright © 2009 The Frozen Ark Project
Frozen Ark Project is a registered Charity (No. 1118044) and a Company Limited by Guarantee in England and Wales (No. 5932945)
The Frozen Ark Office, School of Biology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
Frozen.Ark@nottingham.ac.uk