Are new approaches to recreating long-lost animals simply creating imitations?
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Efforts to save one species can provide scientific knowledge that enables us to save other creatures in need.
For rhino specialists, translocation has been one of the most important tools in the conservation box of tricks.
By unlocking the full potential of rhino ovaries, we hope to produce enough eggs to revive the northern white rhino in the wild.
Scientists have created embryos from the eggs of southern white rhino and sperm from their northern counterparts.
Rhino resurrection is tempting, but if humans cannot save a species in nature, what future for animals that we manufacture?
We can’t save all endangered species, but we could save some. Zoo populations will be the last hope for many threatened species.
The death of the last male northern white rhino in the world raises an interesting question: when does a species pass the point of no return?
Their flimsy chances rely on the eggs and sperm from the remaining three elderly animals, combined with frozen DNA from dead rhino.
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Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University
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Assistant research professor, University of Antwerp
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Associate Professor in Ovarian Physiology, Lead for Ovarian Cryopreservation and Fertility Preservation Research, Lead of Rhino Fertility Project, University of Oxford
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PhD Candidate, University of Antwerp
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Adjunct professor/Director WRG Conservation Foundation, University of Guelph
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Chair IUCN rhino specialist group and Research Associate, Nelson Mandela University
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Lecturer, University of Cambridge; Anglia Ruskin University
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University