8 April 2025, 11:52 | Updated: 8 April 2025, 11:57

By Professor Mike Benton

Do we want to see extinct animals brought back to life?

The process is called ‘de-extinction’, effectively, it is claimed, reversing extinction.

These stories also have an optimistic tone. The announcement of a genetically modified Dire wolf raises the possibility again. Earlier reports had suggested the mammoth might be brought back. They could stalk the Siberian plains, bringing back the biodiversity that their dung, urine, and soil churning activity used to create.

De-extinction fans suggest that this might be a way for people to feel less guilty about the havoc we have wrought on wildlife. We killed off the dodo, the great auk, the passenger pigeon, and we are threatening thousands of species by encroaching on their natural........

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