De-extinction is when someone creates an organism that is the same or similar to an extinct species. Cloning has been the most common that scientists have been trying to achieve. Some of the animals that they are trying to bring back are the passenger pigeon and the woolly mammoth, they plan to do this by extracting DNA fragments from preserved animals they have. Cloning only can work if they …show more content…
Would it also change the way we think about looking after the animals that we have, it might make us think that it doesn’t matter the way we treat animals because we could just bring them back if the species dies? If we were to bring some species back do we know what sort of viruses these animals carry, one of these viruses could be a mega-virus that could kill the entire human race? Depending on what animals we bring back some of these animals have been dead for millions of years and would be completely foreign to the environment we live in now. If we start bringing back animals it may also change our priorities and make us focus more on bringing back animals than trying to solve medical problems we have at the moment.
De-extinction is a big step forward in science, de-extinction could provide us with knowledge of evolution and animals that we have never seen. It could also have a lot of environmental benefits such as some damaged ecosystems could be repaired by some extinct species of plants and animals. We can also redeem ourselves for what we have done to this planet we can bring back some animals and plants that are extinct because we made them go extinct. It can also be used to save the animals that are going extinct now so they won't die