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$5bn project to map DNA of every animal, plant and fungus
International sequencing drive will involve reading genomes of 1.5m species
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It isn't going to tell us anything we don't already know or need to know. It's another $5bn out the window so that in two hundred years time, the boffins can look back at all the wonderful varieties of wildlife that exisited in the past but don't exist anymore because they spent $5bn on mapping DNA instead of $5bn on wildlife reserves and protecting their natural environment.