This action was based on a review of the best available scientific and commercial data, which indicated that the species is no
longer in danger of extinction, or likely to become so within the foreseeable future.
CONSERVATION AND CLONING • Although we may soon have the biotechnology tools necessary to revive
long - extinct species, such as woolly mammoths, we should focus more on efforts to save the 20,000 species now
in grave
danger of extinction, the Editors state
in this month's Science Agenda.