Woolly mammoth revisited...

New York Times columnist Olivia Judson wrote a compelling piece today about regenerating the woolly mammoth and the neanderthal. Her thoughts are close to mine, while she's intrigued behind the science of resurrecting extinct species, she believes that closer attention should be paid to saving current species from extinction first.

She writes:

And yet. No matter how much I enjoy thinking about the science of resurrection — and I do — I have to admit that the absence of mammoths isn’t exactly a pressing problem. What is pressing is the number of species we are currently in danger of losing. It would be a shame if, in 200 years, our descendants were wondering whether to try and resurrect the elephant or the polar bear, the albatross or the mourning dove.

Let’s get our act together. Let’s prevent that first.