[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″ custom_padding=”0|0px|54px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.1″ background_image=”https:\/\/ibol.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Janzen-leaf.jpg” custom_padding=”0||0||false|false”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ background_color=”rgba(20,20,24,0.68)” custom_padding=”100px||100px|” custom_padding_tablet=”” custom_padding_phone=”30px||30px|||” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|desktop” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.1″ text_font=”Abel|||on|||||” text_font_size=”26px” header_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”||||||||” background_layout=”dark” custom_padding=”|50px||50px” text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”10px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” header_font_size_tablet=”30px” header_font_size_phone=”20px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone”]iBOL Consortium \u2013 Press Release<\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.23″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″ custom_padding=”3px|0px|54px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”0|0px|0|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.3.4″ text_font=”||||||||” hover_enabled=”0″ text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone”]15 January 2020<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s only about the size of Nova Scotia, but Costa Rica is a biodiversity hot spot that\u2019s home to some four per cent of all known species on Earth.<\/p>\n Against ever-mounting threats to the planet\u2019s biodiversity, helping to catalogue and conserve many of those organisms in the Central American country is the purpose of a new $4-million award to the University of Guelph\u2019s Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG)<\/a>.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”28px|0px|22px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.1″ text_font=”||||||||” text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone”]<\/p>\n The Chicago-based Walder Foundation<\/a> has awarded US$1 million for an ambitious project to catalogue 1 million insect specimens in Costa Rica.<\/p>\n With matching grants from the Costa Rican government and the Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund \u2013 a non-profit organization focused on conserving biodiversity \u2013\u00a0 the CBG will receive almost C$4 million to extend its DNA barcoding project there.<\/p>\n \u201cThese awards will allow a magnificent advance in our understanding of Costa Rican biodiversity,\u201d said Prof. Paul Hebert, CBG director. \u201cWe are embarking on a great voyage of species discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n The funding will enable biologists, including Costa Rican researchers, to add data for about 200,000 species \u2013 including many new to science \u2013 over the next three years to a growing DNA barcode library being developed by the\u00a0<\/span>International Barcode of Life<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(iBOL) consortium hosted at U of G.<\/p>\n Developed by Hebert, DNA barcoding allows researchers to distinguish species of living things based on a telltale snippet of their genetic material.<\/p>\n Until now, barcoding studies in Costa Rica have focused on plants and animals in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, a 169,000-hectare restoration and conservation project in a UNESCO World Heritage site. The new funding will extend analysis to organisms in 10 more national parks in the country.<\/p>\n All specimens will be analyzed at the CBG. Hebert said powerful new DNA sequencing technology and analytical approaches will allow researchers to catalogue all of Costa Rica\u2019s estimated 1 million species in about a decade \u2013 and none too soon.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.1″ custom_padding=”0px|||||”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.1″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.1″]<\/p>\n \u201cI think biodiversity is going to be the next big problem that humanity will be forced to grapple with,\u201d said Hebert, scientific director of the iBOL consortium. \u201cLost species can\u2019t be replaced.\u201d<\/p>\n Last June,\u00a0<\/span>iBOL launched a $180-million research program<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>called\u00a0<\/span>BIOSCAN<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>to barcode 10 million specimens worldwide by 2026. This seven-year project involves more than 1,000 researchers from about 30 countries.<\/p>\n Results from the new Costa Rica project will represent a major contribution to BIOSCAN, said Hebert. They will also underpin BioAlfa, a $100-million project launched by the Costa Rican government earlier this year that aims to enlist citizens in understanding and protecting biodiversity.<\/p>\n Referring to recent evidence of a 30-per-cent decline in North American bird numbers over the last 50 years, Hebert said the goal of \u201cmaking humanity \u2018bio-literate\u2019 is ever more critical as we continue to encroach on natural habitats. People are not thinking about what we\u2019re doing to life on the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n The Walder Foundation<\/a> is a private family foundation based near Chicago, Illinois, working to promote sustainability across a variety of program areas, including the environment.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.1″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/ibol.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/handrearing.jpg” _builder_version=”4.1″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.1″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/ibol.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/logo-walder-nav@2x.png” url=”https:\/\/walderfoundation.org\/” url_new_window=”on” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.1″ custom_padding=”25px||||false|false”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.1″ custom_padding=”1px|||||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.1″][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/youtu.be\/iJ8V3RlmnFI” _builder_version=”4.1″][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.1″ link_font=”|||||on|||”]Links: <\/strong> Media Contact: <\/strong><\/p>\n International Barcode of Life Consortium<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row custom_padding_last_edited=”on|phone” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_color=”#a8d367″ custom_padding=”0px||” custom_padding_tablet=”8px|||0px” custom_padding_phone=”0px|||0px”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ text_font=”Abel||||||||” link_font=”||||||||” link_text_color=”#646564″ header_font=”||||||||” text_orientation=”center” module_alignment=”right” custom_padding_tablet=”” custom_padding_phone=”20px||” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|phone”]<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Hannah James<\/strong> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_color=”#a8d367″ module_alignment=”center” custom_padding=”0|50px|67px|50px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ text_font=”||||||||” text_orientation=”center” text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”15px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop”]<\/p>\n The International Barcode of Life (iBOL) Consortium is a research alliance with a mission to develop and apply a globally accessible, DNA-based system for the discovery and identification of all multicellular life. 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