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Bring back dodo? Ambitious plan draws investors, critics

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By CHRISTINA LARSON

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None of this should be difficult. DNA is Lego and could be reconstituted with the miniaturised equivalent of a 3D printer. Then, like nature, you replicate it. An artificial womb should be easy enough too.

Scientists are becoming very puritan and conservative. Animal and plant species are in a state of constant change. Every new generation - every seed and baby bug - is a roll of the evolutionary dice. Nature doesn't do stasis. The Canutesque biosecure borders that are being set up won't stop pollen, seeds and animals migrating on land, wind and water. They will need to migrate across borders if they are to survive climate change. Our flora and fauna evolved like that. It's amusingly unscientific that anything that made landfall before the modern age has been labelled a 'native species' within artificial national borders.

Rewilding with velociraptors is probably a bad idea, but if Musk hadn't spent all that cash on Twitter, he could have had a crack at a real Jurassic Park. There were plenty of smaller, cute, vegetarian dinosaurs. And once the tech works, catgirls!

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It’s questionable whether the money invested in to this would have been available for efforts to save species. Investors usually seek an eventual return on the investment, more likely it is the potential alternative health related uses of any techniques developed that attracted the money. It isn’t an either or situation, one does not preclude the other and indeed both should be persued.

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Low risk: Bringing back the Dodo in a controlled environment. But scientists in a panic.

High risk: Fish farming, with regular escapes of aggressive species wiping out local ones. But legal and common.

High risk and undemocratic: Tokyo and London bowing to the USG and American multinationals, allowing GM product to be grown in the open and hidden in food that all of their citizens eat without labelling.

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High risk: Fish farming, with regular escapes of aggressive species wiping out local ones.

Please document some occasions where this has occurred. There are many problems associated with fish farming including accumulations of wastes, antibiotics and the fact that in many cases more tonnage of fish are caught to provide fishmeal to the farmed fish than the eventual tonnage of farmed fish. But the idea that farmed salmon are somehow so aggressive they attacking and killing off the native species is, well, pretty hard to believe.

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Considering how the Dodo bird's inherent trust was abused leading to its quick extinction the Dodo is one species I would love to see man find a way to reincarnate and protect. Call me a sentimental fool if you will but I guess I find its story particularly tragic.

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Collossal Biosciences are going to bring back the Woolly Mammoth?

Just one? Not two? A male and a female so they can produce a third? So father, mother and kiddy woolly mammoth can become extinct a second time in a global warming world? It's better that Collossal Biosciences become extinct.

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