Tasmanian Tiger Scientists Plot Resurrection
The ambitious project will harness advances in genetics, ancient DNA recovery and artificial breeding to bring the animal back. “We would argue strongly that first and foremost we need to protect our biodiversity from further extinctions, but unfortunately we are not seeing a slowdown in species loss,” said Andrew Pask, a professor at the University of Melbourne and head of Thyacine Integrated. Genetic Restoration Research Laboratory, leading the initiative. “This technology offers an opportunity to correct this and could be applied in exceptional cases where keystone species have been lost,” he added....