A government mega-project could push the country’s big cats closer to extinction — an outcome that would have devastating ripple effects on the local ecosystem.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is on an island halfway between Europe and the North Pole. It contains frozen seeds of food crops from around the world. The vault opened in 2008 to help keep crops safe from extinction.
Check out this #genebank project in Mexico aimed at protecting endangered jaguars.
https://worldcrunch.com/green/tren-maya-mexico-jaguar-endangered
People have been building doomsday genetic banks for a while now.
There’s a genetic bank in the Arctic that stores millions of seed samples from around the world.
Genetic banks can be very helpful in preventing the extinction of several species on Earth.