...with people wanting to recreate the woolly mammoth. First, lets get something out of the way:
We can't bring back the mammoth.
What we can do is breed mammoth-elephant hybrids, which would be raised by elephants and thus act like elephants.
They do claim that releasing a few thousand mammoths in Siberia might help climate change (and there's some indication it might help the health of the tundra).
But also...
...elephants are endangered, so is it really ethical to have elephant moms bring hybrids into the world? Esp. as nobody can ask the elephants and they're pretty smart critters.
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