Cloning Endangered & Extinct Animals

Each year it seems like more and more animals are on the brink of extinction. We face the very real danger of loosing a piece of this planet, our history in such a way that we will never be able to get it back except from the pages of story books. Animals that once seemed real will fade into memories, and into myth.

Animals which are needed in their areas for ecological balance. It is because of that fact, among others, that these animals need to be saved. With human expansion and (needed or not) exploitation of them, and their natural habitats, these animals are dying off.

However, with the miracles of science exploding new possibilities upon us each and every day, there may be a new way to possibly save, or even bring back these animals!

Dolly, the sheep, opened the door with the amazing technology of cloning. A tool which may now be used to possibly restore these endangered animals.

When you think of animal cloning, a certain movie(s) featuring dinosaurs may come to mind, but in reality, it probably wouldn't work like that.

Animals which would be available for cloning would need to have been frozen right after death, or have been dead no longer than five days. Not leaving much of a chance for many of the (especially in warm climates) animals that have long since passed on. That does however, leave the door open for animals that are in very real danger of extinction in the near future (extinct animal).

The problem with cloning these animals aren't small issues, these animals (again, as with Dolly) are weaker and more sickly than their original counterparts. It's also difficult to find a carrier for the cloned animal that'd be able to carry it to term, or at all

Cloning in it's self is a very controversial issue, and it will no doubt raise it's own issues, although there is a strong, moral argument in this instance. Something which has been hailed as one of the 'positive' outcomes of this technology.