For bringing back animals that are extinct

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De-Extinction: Resurrecting Extinct Species
De-extinction is the restoration of species that no longer exist or has died out. After the release of Jurassic Park, nearly twenty-three years ago, the vision of reviving the dinosaur has remained a science fiction. However, several decades to come, scientists could be able to restore most of the extinct species such as passenger pigeon, thylacine or a wooly mammoth. Unfortunately, there is some controversy if bringing back extinct species would be beneficial to the natural world or detriment to wildlife. Some of the benefits of reviving the extinct animals are that it would be a technological advancement. It would assist in preserving biodiversity, increase people’s visitation to conservation parks and zoos, bring back diminished ecosystems, improve the science required to inhibit further extinctions and undo the harm that human beings have done to cause the animals become extinct in the first place. The focus of writing this paper is to discuss the benefits of bringing back extinct animals to the world.
It would be a significant advancement scientifically. Technological progress of using genetic engineering would help make the process of de-extinction become a reality. According to Live Science and Discovery News, some biologist in 2003 produced a Pyrenean ibex clone using a tissue sample that had been frozen from its species earlier in 2000 before it became extinct. However, seven minutes after its birth the cloned Pyrenean ibex died of physical flaws in its lungs.

Despite its death, it made scientists recognize that they were able to bring back extinct species. As the technology of cloning expands, researchers have found out that it would be possible to recreate recently extinct species using a small quantity of DNA from the animal’s remains left behind. It is only old animals with DNA that are too old to be recuperated such as the dinosaurs, which people can consider extinct both genetically and bodily. All the other extinct animals have the probability to be rejuvenated to life. Therefore, after scientists can restore the extinct species it would be a step forward in the field of genetic engineering
Bringing back species from extinction could preserve biodiversity. It would give the present generation the chance to see some of the extraordinary creatures that have been part of our world. Presently people learn about some of the world’s most magnificent animals from books. By rejuvenating these missing animals, science would redefine attitudes people have concerning the natural world. People would be able again to see the ivory-billed, woodpeckers, wooly mammoth, dodo birds, Eskimo curlews and much more. Science believes that it could lead to increased visitation to conservation parks and zoos to see these amazing animals. The efforts would then increase income from both the local and international tourism. The money obtained could be used for environmental conservation. Also, as scientists, say biodiversity is a store of the natural invention. For example, most of the pharmaceutical medicines were not invented from scratch but gotten from natural compounds located within the species of wild plants. Therefore, de-extinction of the animals would assist in the invention of different useful things such as invention of a drug that could be used in the treatment of a certain incurable diseases.
It could also help restore some of the weakened ecosystems. Various extinct species were referred to as keystones to their specific regions. Therefore, not having them, has led to the disappearance of their habitation (Muckle and González 67). For example, Siberia was home for big herbivorous mammals such as the wooly mammoths about 12000 years ago. During those days, the landscape of Siberia was grassy steppes and not moss-dominated tundra as it is today. The wooly mammoths and other herbivores preserved the carbon-fixing grassland by cultivating the soil and then using their manure to fertilize it. It caused them to assist in preventing the growth of the tundra that releases the greenhouse gas. However, after they became extinct, the moss dominated the area and turned the grassy steppes into boreal and tundra forests that are less productive. Therefore restoring the wooly mammoth would assist in replacing and sustaining a better ecosystem in Siberia.
De-extinction will not only bring back the previously extinct species. However, it would support in preventing the extinction of more species by permitting science to increase the population of endangered species by researching and correcting the things that caused the species vulnerability in the first place(Pilcher 83). For instance, a contagious face cancer has plagued a large number of the Tasmanian devils. Scientists believe that the cause of cancer is a single gene found within the Tasmanian devil. Therefore, if the scientists and researchers could successfully perfect their gene manipulation and restoration process, it would be possible to silence the gene that causes face cancer and make the species resistant to the virus. It would lead to the quick removal of the cancerous Tasmanian devils bred from existence, and more animals reproduced that contain better corrected and enhanced gene. Also, the same techniques used to revive the extinct species could be used on living species, which are almost close to being extinct. The species whose numbers are small could use same the new technique to increase their population.
Another benefit would be it would help correct the mistakes people have made by destroying or hunting the environments of the creatures. People do things without thinking of what effects it would bring in their surroundings. Human beings are accountable for some of the adverse consequences that have led to climate changes the world is experiencing. To add on individuals have played a significant role in the number of several animals that have become extinct over the past years (Flaman 27). In the past people hunted many animals for food, they have practiced deforestation for various reason such as constructing homes and using the trees for fuel that has caused animals to lose their habitat. Also, human –induced changes to the climate have led to the extinction of different species. Without knowing these human events have resulted in the disappearance of various animals such as passenger pigeon. At the arrival of European’s in North America, the estimated number of passenger pigeons were about five billion. However, the European settlers and the Native Americans caught the birds for food and their feathers. Afterward, they shot the passenger pigeons for sport and destroyed the forests where the birds lived. After the successful construction of the railway to the east coast, the bird was killed for commercial purposes while other thousands were hunted for cheap meat. It is now nearly100 years since the death of the last passenger pigeon in Cincinnati zoo. Therefore bringing them back would help correct the damage people caused them.
Soon the bringing back of wiped out animals is about to become a reality through the use of surviving DNA. The restoration of extinct animals will bring many benefits to the world now and also in the future. Reviving of extinct animals will be a technological advancement in the field of science. It would help preserve biodiversity, increase number of people that visit the conservative parks and the zoos, correct the mistake people did in the past causing the animals to be extinct, restore the vulnerable ecosystem, and finally, improve and correct endangered living ecosystem.therefore it isimportant for the extinct species tobe revived back.
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Muckle, Robert J, and Laura T. González. Through the Lens of Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture. , 2016. Print.
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Flaman, Paul. Genetic Engineering: Christian Values and Catholic Teaching. New York: Paulist Press, 2002. Print.
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Pilcher, Helen. Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-Extinction. , 2016. Internet resource.Bottom of Form
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