Maybe, but in the cases where extinction was caused by habitat loss, I can’t see the habitat loss being reversed in order to let them survive. If it could bring that about, why not? Maybe people would then see the light about preventing habitat loss in the first place.
But more importantly, could we tick them?
Peter Shute
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> On 7 May 2016, at 9:16 AM, David Adams < dpadams@gmail.com> wrote:
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> It would be the worst thing to happen to wildlife biology since…ever.
> It’s already hard enough to convince people and governments to preserve
> animals as it is. When they figure you can stuff them in a bottle and later
> down the line reconstitute them, good luck. There would be no urgency to
> save things in the wild that can be “saved” on a shelf for that magical day
> when there is room for them again.
>
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