Biorepositories for Adaptive Resilience to Climate

The BioARC Consortium aims to develop a network of biorepositories across the Americas to improve wildlife pathogen surveillance, promote open-access data sharing, and advance One Health practices. These biorepositories will enable the preservation of high quality wildlife samples to enhance both biodiversity conservation and public health. The Consortium will host a multinational knowledge exchange program to build local partnerships and stakeholder engagement, co-creating a monitoring framework that prioritizes community ownership of biodiversity data. The BioARC Consortium includes partners from Belize, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Uruguay, and the USA, spanning diverse disciplines in the natural, medical, and social sciences, as well as community stakeholders dedicated to ensuring resilient, healthy human and wildlife communities. Together, they will support infrastructure development, invest in capacity-building, and co-create best practices for preventing pathogen spillovers.