Rhino extinction.

RE: Rhino extinction.

Arlo Guthrie — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 07:17:50 GMT

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I just returned from a couple of weeks in the Kruger Park in South Africa, which used to be one of the world’s last strongholds of truly wild rhino.

10 years ago we had 78 rhino sightings in 4 days.
This time, in two weeks we saw one single solitary rhino.
For the first time it truly dawned on me: they are gone. Truly. Gone. Annihilated. Murdered to extinction.

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Miriam Lodewyks And I've just returned from four days in Iceland, where, as we climbed a glacier, the guide showed us how far it used to stretch and how deep it was in the 1970s.

Whilst I hate to think of the extinction of rhinos, I fear there is a bigger elephant in the room.

RE: Rhino extinction.

Julian Earl — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:30:03 GMT

The trouble with cloning from rehistoric DNA, is that you won't know what you are growing until iit hatches so a planned small herbivore might indeed prove to be avelocoraptor or worse! Then what do you do? Let it live or euthanase it on safety grounds perhaps? Leading to immoral decisions I believe as a result?

Thank you for everyone's input. I am glad my post has proved a little interesting even provocative!

RE: Rhino extinction.

Clive Ansell — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:21:16 GMT

Maybe the company in Texas, and the technology used to pointlessly clone pets for equally pointless and vacuous celebrities, could be put to a useful purpose saving these and other creatures like them from extinction? just a thought.