Should we bring back the dodo? De-extinction is a feel-good story, but these high-tech replacements aren’t really ‘resurrecting’ species

It’s no secret that human activities have put many of this planet’s <a href="https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/#:%7E:text=The%20Report%20finds%20that%20around,20%25%2C%20mostly%20since%201900." rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">inhabitants in danger</a>. Extinctions are happening <a href="https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922686117" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">at a dramatically faster rate</a> than they have over the past tens of millions of years. An estimated quarter of all species on Earth are at risk of being lost, many within decades. What can scientists possibly do to stop that trend? For some, the answer is to “de-extinct.” Colossal, <a href="https://colossal.com/de-extinction/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">a biotechnology company</a> that garnered headlines for its plan to “de-extinct” the woolly mammoth, is now attempting to “bring back” the famously <a href="https://colossal.com/dodo/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">dead dodo bird</a>. The company says its goal is to create a population of undead dodos to put on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, where the hefty, flightless creatures lived before humans <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-dodo-is-dead-long-live-the-dodo" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">drove them to extinction</a> in the late 1600s. <a href="https://medium.com/the-conversation/should-we-bring-back-the-dodo-99111a650eb0">Click Here</a>