Ark-Biodiversity GmbH

Ark-Biodiversity develops state-of-the-art genomic and information technology methods for the containment of the global illegal trade in protected and endangered organisms. The illegal animal trade is today the fourth largest criminal sector in the world and, together with climate change and industrial overexploitation of nature, one of the three main factors in global species extinction. The company’s technological quantum leap allows a global forgery-proof registration of all protected and endangered species, as well as the traceability of all transactions with protected organisms. The technology is based on a single genomic test applicable to all higher organisms (including all vertebrates, invertebrates, arthropods and plants), which can be carried out economically, on a massive scale and eventually even “point of care” e.g. at ports of exit and entry in international trade. A salient result of this test, it provides an address system for genetic data of literally all organisms – one that could eventually serve as the standard for a blockchain-based global backbone for the Enforcement of the Washington and Nagoya Accords.