Colombia boasts of being the most diverse country in the world, but its biological collection is at risk. The building that houses 3.5 million specimens of plants, birds, insects and fungi has a structural failure and rain leaks.
Building a new one would cost $24 million. There, at risk, 1,650 species of birds were represented, almost 85% of those in Colombia. The deepest fear is losing what those cabinets hold, which hold years of data, history and information.