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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
CANBERRA, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) — Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has opened a biodiversity centre here to store more than 13 million specimens of organisms, it said on Thursday.
The new building, called Diversity, houses the Australian National Wildlife Collection and the Australian National Insect Collection. The storage facilities are temperature controlled, bushfire and pest-proof.
The centre houses one of the world's largest collections of Australian and Papua New Guinean birds, a huge collection of insects and other specimens collected over 150 years. The creation of a single repository will help ensure biosecurity, conservation, climate resilience and environmental management.
According to CSIRO director general Doug Hilton, the new centre is a “hidden force supporting everything from tracking pest invasions to discovering new species and understanding the genetic diversity of Australia’s native ecosystems”.
The A$90 million (US$59 million) centre, equipped with cutting-edge genomics and digitalisation labs, will enable researchers from around the world to extract DNA, produce high-resolution images and share data, CSIRO said.
The project, which was jointly funded by CSIRO and the Australian Department of Education, began in 2022. Construction took just over two years, with another year needed to accommodate the 13 million samples in the building. –0–
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