WASHINGTON, June 25 : A biotech company and a U.S. government agency announced on Thursday a plan to create an archive of living cells and genomic material for every species protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act in a project to safeguard roughly 2,300 types of animals and plants deemed threatened or endan

The move comes as the Trump administration is trying to weaken the act that’s meant to protect endangered species from going extinct in the first place.

Colossal Biosciences is working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to launch a biobank to save endangered species.