Andrew Pask

The reason we're wanting to bring these animals back is to help stabilise the ecosystems they once lived in.

And every single bit of technology that we've developed along the pathway to bringing back a species is

we can immediately use for conservation benefits.

And we're doing that right now.

So we're saving species with the genetic engineering.

We're saving them with the biobanking and our new ability to make stem cells across a whole range of species.

These are all really important technologies that we need to develop that are happening because of de-extinction science.

Yeah, for sure.

I mean, there's no DNA left in dinosaur bones.

They went extinct, you know, 60 million years ago.

So all of that, you know, you can't go back that far.

You can only go back to more contemporary extinction events.

And also, you know, obviously in that movie they were bringing back a big animal that would eat people and lived 60 million years ago, and the planet has changed a lot since then.

But something like the Tasmanian tiger and, you know, some of the other species we've worked on, they've only been extinct for 100 years or not so much longer than that.

The environment's still intact and there is someone to put them back into.

And so a very different scenario to Jurassic Park, but similar technology and something we really need to build a healthy planet.