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African elephants play at the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya. Half the world's mammals are declining in population and more than a third are probably threatened with extinction.
Thursday, Feb. 02, 2012

Open quoteIf we did go down the road of introducing elephants to Australia, we had better develop the technology to clone saber-toothed tigers to eventually control the elephants.Close quote

  • RICKEY SPENCER
  • of the University of Western Sydney, on the idea to import elephants and other foreign species to deal with ecological issues
Photo: Mladen Antonov / AFP / Getty | Source: BBC