Zoo DNA initiative to help fight extinction

DNA from endangered animals at Dublin Zoo is being stored at arctic temperatures in a modern day Noah’s Ark to help save them from extinction.

The zoo has been taking blood samples from species in danger of being wiped out in the wild and storing them in a special, alarmed deep freeze at minus 80C as part of an international Frozen Ark project.

Conservation and research coordinator at Dublin Zoo, Sandra Molloy, said the blood samples are helping to preserve species who have dwindled to tiny numbers.