The Pyrenean Ibex was a subspecies of the Spanish Goat. It once held a vast range, but over kill would reduce it to one National Park by the turn of the last century. And poaching still ensued after the species was protected in 1973. In 1999, there was one individual left, her picture is here. Just one. The species was extinct as i
t was. Just one. Do you know what just one is? It is hopeless. It is without fate. And it lives as a relic, as if trying to show the world as long as it can, that it's kind was once here. The animal was captured in 1999 and a tissue sample was taken to clone the animal in case of the worst. And on January 6th, 2000, the new millenium, a new start for mankind, the worst came true. A land slide felled a tree, that crushed the skull of her. And she was found, not just dead, but extinct. The biggest conservation failure of our century. What a way to kick off another thousand years of the degredation of earth. And without male tissue, a true cloned species may be very impossible.
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You ever heard of a Chamois, or Chamee or, well what the hell, it's pronounced Shammee, it's a cloth for cleaning vehicles and other stuff. It's made of spanish goat skin. The skin is desirable. That's why. Good leather. Plus a little meat I guess.
Plus, what's the point in killing thousands of animals just to waste half of their body. What good is a dead rhinoceros other than a horn. What good is a dead elephant other than tusks? What good is a dead tiger other than a cool skin? We are a sick and disgusting race. And every religion and point of view, even science, is guilty of that.
What the most ethical, economical, and political answer to that is, take one tree from the wild, tissue culture it, and clone it, clone it, clone it. Populate the wild more, and then use clones to make harvasting groves. So you'd use the clones for medicinal puroses, and leave the wild. In this way, you actually increase the numbers of the species while helping the human species. You can breed your clones for some diversity if you wanted to start with two different trees for clones, etc. That's the best answer. Me, i think we should just let everybody die, and not waste the time, land, or money. but that's always been me. I've been big on genocide for years. I see it as morally wrong, but so economically and scientifically right. Sick I know. And that's why I don't talk about it, even to myself.
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