Wooly Mammoths: The Ethics of De-Extinction

-The topic of the essay is why the de-extinction of the woolly mammoth is unethical.

-an animal resurrected by humans would be void of any intrinsic, natural value.

-3 pieces of evidence in the article that was stated.

• “The Ethics of De-Extinction, Shlomo Cohen notes, “If nature has intrinsic value, this value must entail independence (autonomy) from human purpose, activity, and interest. Humans cannot restore natural intrinsic value, since all restoration is, qua human creation, artifactual—the precise antonym of the natural.”
• Ben Mezrich, the author of Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic ExtinctCreatures, notes,”I believe—and I think most conservationists agree—that bringing back an extinct species like the mammoth is less playing God than it is correcting something we did” (Worrall)”.
•  George Church states “securing an alternative future for the endangered Asian elephant”.