University of Cambridge<\/a>, understands the motivation of wanting to \u201cright the wrong\u201d of the thylacine\u2019s extinction, but says projects like this potentially undermine current conservation efforts to save rare species, not just because valuable resources are being diverted from where they can be most effectively used.<\/p>\n\u201cThylacines are gone due to overhunting,\u201d Ashby says. \u201cIf we keep saying it can be resurrected, what would that do to our ability to argue against over-hunting elsewhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
Main image: A biotech company called Colossal Biosciences plans to bring back the extinct thylacine through gene editing. \u00a9\u00a0Colossal Biosciences\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n
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