Gene bank project to preserve wild species launched

A project for the creation of a gene bank, to preserve endangered wild animal and plant species, was launched by the Ministry of National Planning and Environment, said Monday the department’s Minister Dalila Boudjemaa.
In a reply to the questions of the members of People’s National Assembly (Lower House of Parliament) in a plenary session, Boudjamma said that her department launched a gene bank project for the endangered wild animal and plant species, underlining that the project is “underway.”
Recalling that the ministry has conducted, since the beginning of the year, an operation to classify all the ecological resources, the minister underlined that this bank will be managed by the National Biological Resources Development Centre (CNDRB) coming under the ministry.  
The European countries expressed their willingness to provide Algeria with samples of endangered wild animal and plant species, added the minister.