Australia opens facility to protect 13 mln biodiversity specimens


By GossZhang Jianhua
  • World
  • Friday, 15 Aug 2025

CANBERRA, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Australia's national science agency has opened a biodiversity center to safeguard over 13 million specimens.

The new building, named Diversity, in the capital Canberra, unites the Australian National Wildlife Collection and the Australian National Insect Collection under one roof in temperature-controlled, bushfire- and pest-resistant vaults, according to a statement released Thursday by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO).

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