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De-Extinction / Would bringing back extinct animals (Such as the Tasmanian…

- - - - Human hunting drove the final nail into their coffin.
        
        The basic idea of de-extinction is to use bits of genetic material salvaged from an extinct species
        
        We need a credible plan to remove problematic de-extinguished species or manage their impacts. Who will decide whether control or eradication is necessary? At what point in the de-extinction process will this decision be made? What tools or methods will be effective in controlling the species or its problems? And who will pay for these efforts? We know from experience with invasive species that control or eradication of nuisance species can be costly and difficult (or impossible), so developing such “spill” plans will be challenging. However, they will be as indispensible for de-extinction as for oil drilling.
        
        Furthermore, research on biological invasions shows that it is very difficult to accurately predict the abundance and impacts of newly introduced species. Consequently, we can expect some predictions about the effects of de-extinctions to be wrong, so that some de-extinctions anticipated to be benign will cause harm. It is therefore important that a plan for controlling or repairing damage be in place before these new organisms are released.
        
        Ecologists know that the setting into which a species is placed strongly affects its roles and impacts, so there is no reason to expect that passenger pigeon v.2.0 (or any other de-extinguished species) would simply re-assume its former roles. Experience with native North American species like white-tailed deer, Canada geese, coyotes, and Colorado potato beetles shows that the roles that these species play (and human valuation of those roles) changed radically as ecological and societal contexts changed.
- - - - the last Tasmanian tiger died of neglect at the Hobart zoo
- - - - Europeans may have encountered it in Tasmania as far back as 1642 when Abel Tasman first arrived in Tasmania.
        
        the scientific name for the tasmanian tiger is Thylacinus cynocephalus
        
        Tasmanian Tigers have been found in engravings and rock art dating back to 1000BC
        
        The Tasmanian Tiger was the largest carnivorous marsupial
        
        I'ts called the Tasmanian Tiger because of the stripes on its lower back.
        
        Thylacinus Cynocephalus comes from Greek meaning “Dog Headed Pouched One