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Reviving the Auroch

submitted by UncleDoug to science 3.6 yearsSep 14, 2021 22:05:01 ago (+3/-0)     (theconversation.com)

https://theconversation.com/the-quest-to-revive-extinct-aurochs-to-restore-ancient-lands-84649

Using CRISPR not for gene therapy, but to reintroduce keystone species to the ecosystem and turning fallow farmland back into forestry.

Re-wilding Europe

OP Tauros


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[ - ] gimpyoldman 2 points 3.6 yearsSep 14, 2021 22:39:44 ago (+2/-0)

Maybe they can do neanderthals, next? That would be fun.

[ - ] fightknightHERO 1 point 3.6 yearsSep 15, 2021 01:59:45 ago (+1/-0)

Interesting research, is truly possible to bring back an extinct animal using gene therapy?

[ - ] UncleDoug [op] 2 points 3.6 yearsSep 15, 2021 03:01:16 ago (+2/-0)

Yes, they already are. It's not cloning in the case of Aurochs its back-breeding through artificial selection of surviving rare breed bovines. Surprisingly the last paleolithic Auroch existed right up until 1627 in Poland. It can return disused farmland back into the forest allowing the earth to reclaim what we ruined and is less damaging than introducing niggers into the country to do that. We can potentially make better meat and dairy cattle out of selective back breeding too by making new sub-species of cows after conditionally reintroducing the progenitor species to be left wild.

With the Dodo if they even bother with that, they select the last common ancestor the Nicobar pigeon and use CRISPR to gene edit and tailor-make a Dodo-like bird based on what we currently know. But it will go extinct again due to rats and lizards eating their eggs that have overrun their closed ecosystems.

The most exciting development will be reintroducing Wolly Mammoths into Siberian Tundra to regress glacier regression and inhibit the release of greenhouse gases, thus stopping a climate feedback loop. They also turn tundra (ice desert) into more of a hospitable Savanah ecosystem, promoting biodiversity and forest regrowth there. Making swathes of inhospitable land available to farmers and industry.

I'd like to see Thylacines come back and some NZ terror birds like the Moa. Without keystone predatory species you get trophic cascade. Look at what the Americans did to Yellow Stone, reintroducing wolves back to the park. It corrected every human fault from floods, erosion, the course of rivers, climate, other animals species flight from the locatlity; it fixed everything.

Whites in charge of CRISPR = heal the planet
Kikes in charge of CRISPR = global genophage

[ - ] 2Drunk 0 points 3.6 yearsSep 15, 2021 00:26:41 ago (+0/-0)

Revive one of the 109 societies that can do what needs to be done.