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The Last of Their Kind
Are efforts to resurrect the northern white rhino more technological hubris than genuine conservation?
When Fatu and Najin die, a thread of presence that connects generations of northern white rhinos to the African landscape, going back more than 10 million years, will be inexorably severed. Parker Pennington, formerly an operations manager at the Cincinnati Zoo and Biological Garden who worked with the American Institute for Rhinoceros Science, described the procedure to me as the safest method given the sheer bulk of the animal. An independent conservation ethicist, Thom van Dooren, a professor of environmental philosophy at the University of Sydney in Australia, whose research has pioneered the field of “extinction studies,” agreed.
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