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The Frozen Ark at Natural History Museum in London is the world's first DNA bank to preserve endangered animals. It will collect, preserve and store DNA and tissue samples from animals in danger of extinction and act as a global reference collection for research and conservation. Among the first species whose genes are in storage is the Socorro Dove Zenaida graysoni, which lived only on one island off Mexico, however is now extinct in the wild. The Frozen Ark is supported by the Natural History Museum, the Zoological Society of London and the Institute of Genetics at the University of Nottingham, and will have duplicate specimens located in other institutions across the world as an insurance against damage or loss.

There has been a possible sighting of the Critically Endangered Silvery Wood-pigeon, Columba argentina, with Pied Imperial Pigeons on Pulau Talang Besar (Talang Talang Islands), southwest Sarawak. There have been no confirmed records since 1931. See BirdingASIA 1 (2004):55-56.

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