Australian National Wildlife Collection

Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC)
Housed atNational Research Collections Australia
Crace, Australian Capital Territory
Size (no. of items)<200,000 zoological specimens
WebsiteOfficial website

The Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC) is a collection of almost 200,000 zoological specimens, including skeletons, skins, spirit specimens, birds' eggs, frozen tissue samples and a wildlife sound library, mainly of vertebrate animals from Australia and Papua New Guinea, which are stored in a secure, climate-controlled facility. It is based at CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems Division in the Australian Capital Territory.

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