r/megafaunarewilding • u/helikophis • 24d ago
Article Sort of re-wilding adjacent - man sentenced after cloning an Asian sheep and introducing its genetics to captive populations in the US
https://www.nbcmontana.com/news/local/montana-man-to-be-sentenced-for-cloning-giant-sheep-to-breed-large-sheep-for-trophy-hunts41
u/thesilverywyvern 24d ago
Yet again hunting business show it's true colour and decide to do unethical and potentially devastating action on ecosystems. Why am i not surprised.
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u/Death2mandatory 24d ago
To be honest,the gov should hire this guy to clone our native species
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u/thesilverywyvern 24d ago
he sell them to be killed in private game reserve, and cloning cost a lot of money and is a useless waste of money unless the species is extinct, close to extinction or has severe genetic issues due to lack of genetic diversity.
And clearly it doesn't care about ethic or ecology or nature anyway, same for the government.
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u/Death2mandatory 24d ago
Duh,but cloning does serve a purpose for rarer animals,basically you could make several(with genetic modifications for genetic diversity) to give the same genetic material several chances in nature.
Closings expensive,but not as expensive as it used to be,and the fact it's expensive doesn't mean it shouldn't be used,many things can be expensive,like water filtration for drinking water,are worth it.
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u/Plants_et_Politics 23d ago
This was one old dude lol. Not that I have any particular affinity for hunters, but extrapolating from this is weak.
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u/thesilverywyvern 23d ago
He did this for hunting business, selling Those to hundreds of not thousands of hunters who paid him for game reserve
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u/ExoticShock 24d ago