In a bid to increase the population of wild animals in Thailand, sperm banks holding specimens from endangered and rare species have been established while a pilot project to release thousands of animals in national forests is being pushed forward, officials said at a seminar yesterday.

Ampika Thongpakdee of the Zoological Park Organisation of Thailand said there are 20 sperm banks where semen and cells of rare and endangered species are kept frozen.

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By The Nation