Why would anyone be opposed to de-extinction?

[TorchTheWitch]

77. baloney

Nobody believes that. Mammoth were never extensively hunted to begin with. They simply lost their niche environment of the steppe regions at the base of glaciers. They required and were exclusively built for that extreme yet dry cold, and their daily requirements of fodder were only available to them and other similarly adapted grazing species by the fast growing steppe grasses that only could survive in such necessary quantity in this specific region where soil was not rich, but dry light particles in only a very thin layer. Without these vast steppe regions at the base of glaciers mammoth could not exist, and without the glaciers the steppe regions didn't exist.

Humans couldn't live in that environment where there was no natural shelter, no unfrozen water, and no vegetation other than the steppe grasses. They had to travel great distances for a single hunt which required several small groups of humans that band together for enough hunters and butchers as well as special flint blades both large enough and thin enough to pierce their tough hides. It also required a natural canyon barrier to drive them into which meant they couldn't even make an attempt without having to follow the herd for some time before their provisions were used up and being lucky enough to not only find such a natural blind canyon but be able to drive the herd into it. Killing ONE single mammoth was all they could normally accomplish and the only practical thing to do since they couldn't haul it all back to their homes - it all had to be carried. Remember, this was an age when very few humans even lived on the earth much less in the general vicinity of the steppe regions and hadn't yet invented the use of animals to assist in hauling large loads nor the equipment such as a pole drag or cart - everything they carried had to be carried on their own backs. The average ice age human that even lived in the vicinity of where mammoth lived likely never went on a mammoth hunt but once in their entire lives if ever.

Hunted to extinction??? What rubbish. Mammoth died out because the unique environment they required disappeared during the last and most significant glacial retreat.