San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Unveils Milestone Progress in Its Collaborative Effort to Establish a Network of Globally Distributed Biobanks

Progress Accompanies Organization's Monumental Call to Action: Join Collective Initiative to Biobank Every Endangered Species by 2075

SAN DIEGO , Oct. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has for the first time unveiled milestone progress in its effort to facilitate the development of a network of globally distributed biobanks. Announced today at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is on a mission to protect the future of our planet's biodiversity by helping grow biobanking capacity worldwide—starting with pilot sites in four biodiversity hotspots: Kenya, Vietnam, Hawai'i, and Peru. The non-profit organization has called on conservation champions, organizations, and global partners to join in its ambitious and urgent in