Salon.com > Jaguars http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 00:22:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 If you can’t save ‘em, clone ‘em! http://www.salon.com/2012/12/11/if_you_cant_save_em_clone_em/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/11/if_you_cant_save_em_clone_em/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:51:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13122213 Global Post LIMA, Peru — With species disappearing rapidly from the planet, Brazil has come up with a simple solution: clone them.

Yet that has many experts, worried this high-tech fix is an expensive detour, asking a simple question: Why?

The Brazilian government’s agricultural research agency, EMBRAPA, is now in the early stages of using genetic material retrieved from roadkill in the Cerrado, a vast savanna in the country’s northeast, to create new animals.

It is initially targeting eight species, including jaguars, maned wolves, collared anteaters, a variety of bison and the black lion tamarin monkey.

According to EMBRAPA officials, the scheme is intended to help stock zoos and the cloned animals would only rarely be released into the wild.

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