{"id":25808,"date":"2021-01-29T10:51:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T14:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=25808"},"modified":"2021-02-06T15:46:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T19:46:19","slug":"biodiversity-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/biodiversity-preservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Biodiversity Preservation: Initiatives and Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is biodiversity preservation? How do scientists attempt to preserve endangered animal species from becoming extinct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The threats to biodiversity have been recognized and acknowledged for some time. Today, biodiversity preservation efforts include legislative changes, creation of national parks, and lab preservation of endangered species’ DNA material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep reading to learn about biodiversity preservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Biodiversity Preservation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At the San Diego Zoo\u2019s Institute for Conservation Research, researchers are maintaining cell cultures of critically endangered and extinct species preserved in vials in tanks of nitrogen. One of them is the black-faced honeycreeper from Maui, believed to have gone extinct in the early 2000s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its Frozen Zoo, the institute has saved cell lines of about a thousand species, most of which still exist. The Cincinnati Zoo is doing something similar, as is England\u2019s University of Nottingham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While humans as a species have been destructive and shortsighted, researchers and conservationists also have joined together in heroic efforts, like the Frozen Zoo and the El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center in Panama, to save threatened species. Examples include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n