Tasmanian Tiger

Scientists renew efforts to clone tassie tiger.:

"Dean of Science at the University of New South Wales, Professor Mike Archer, tried thylacine cloning at the Australian Museum in Sydney."

Professor Mike Archer has a new team and new technology and is going to try cloning the extinct Tasmanian tiger again. Will it be possible? Should it be possible? Will we look after the species we bring back to life? What made the Tasmanian tiger extinct in the first place? To recover an extinct species would be a major scientific breakthrough, but if we are not going to look after the animals and care about the environment, I think we should leave them where they are. Doing it because we can is not a good enough reason. We have become increasingly better at cloning plants and fewer of them fall over now like they used to. Cloned animals have been weak, but we have progressed in that respect too. But, all emotional thoughts aside, and looking at it dispassionately, no one ever pushes themselves through those barriers of discovery unless they have a good reason to be motivated. The Tasmanian tiger is obviously the thing which is encouraging Professor Archer to really test out his scientific knowledge and skill. From that point of view, it has to be done. Cloning is not going to go away. It is part of our new future.