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Sunlei

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21. To me its really sad how much diversity in all species the earth has lost.

Reply to catchnrelease (Reply #19)

Mon Feb 9, 2015, 03:12 PM

Feb 2015

Even with mammoths, they probably could have survived the Ice age changes like horses and humans did.

If they had habitat to migrate to without hunting pressure. It is very easy to push a species that has one young a year to extinction.

Today Russians dredge the seas near 'Beringa' and net up millions and millions of mammoth tusks. There is a market, china buys them and carves the ivory.

Those lands must have been a glorious sight with herds of millions of grazing animals.

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Only five northern white rhinos left on Earth and all to old to breed. [View all] Sunlei Feb 2015 OP

What a sad, sad state for the Northern White Rhinos. BlueCaliDem Feb 2015 #1

While we're at it, we ought to see to stopping our own extinction, Jackpine Radical Feb 2015 #3

Technology is really part of the problem, though Spider Jerusalem Feb 2015 #18

You're right. Jackpine Radical Feb 2015 #20

When will poachers become extinct? Omaha Steve Feb 2015 #2

same time poverty becomes extinct ND-Dem Feb 2015 #7

Yesterday, if I had the power to make it happen. nt navarth Feb 2015 #11

Can't we use some sort of cloning or artificial insemination technique to bring them back like Rozlee Feb 2015 #4

they can do that now but any animals would be poached because the market will buy the horns. Sunlei Feb 2015 #6

Just need the embryo catchnrelease Feb 2015 #10

we've done embryo transplants for decades but the surrogate has to be a 'similar' species. Sunlei Feb 2015 #15

You're correct catchnrelease Feb 2015 #19

To me its really sad how much diversity in all species the earth has lost. Sunlei Feb 2015 #21

It's complicated. LeftyMom Feb 2015 #16

And the world becomes packman Feb 2015 #5

Just another attempt to make ourselves feel better The2ndWheel Feb 2015 #8

Other options catchnrelease Feb 2015 #12

The final chapter in Bill Bryson's book "A short history of nearly everything" Aldo Leopold Feb 2015 #9

Why would we do that? The2ndWheel Feb 2015 #13

"What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men LanternWaste Feb 2015 #14

If a billionaire comes along... moondust Feb 2015 #17