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Can We Bring Back the Passenger Pigeon?
▻http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/04/20/resurrection-science-bring-back-passenger-pigeon

The recovery of the first complete #Neanderthal genome was announced in 2013. The #de-extinction of a Neanderthal looks to be, from a technical point of view, relatively easy compared with the de-extinction of the passenger pigeon. Yet the very prospect of such an attempt brings into sharp focus all of the moral, ethical, social, and environmental dilemmas inherent in the new technology—and indeed in de-extinction science itself.

[...] Typically, the technology has arrived in advance of the wisdom to use it judiciously.

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The Case for Bringing Back the Passenger Pigeon - Issue 42 : Fakes
▻http://nautil.us/issue/42/fakes/the-case-for-bringing-back-the-passenger-pigeon

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North Dakota is not known for its pigeons. Or forests, for that matter. The state bird is the western meadowlark, a mellifluous yellow songbird often seen singing on fence posts. Such posts substitute for trees in much of North Dakota. The state is primarily covered in what was once short-grass prairie but is now mostly farms embedded in a human-made grassland, exceptions being the Badlands and a swath of boreal forest in the far north near Canada. Yet it was near Williston, the heart of western North Dakota’s new boom-and-bust oil patch, that Ben Novak first fell in love with Ectopistes migratorius—the passenger pigeon, a bird that rarely graced this region, if ever.feathered eclipse: There were once so many wild passenger pigeons that people were encouraged to hunt them—some said the (...)