If/when these are resurrected, the uses for those resurrected animals will be beyond the reach of wildlife enforcement agencies for the same reason it’s still legal to trade in the ivory of mammoths and mastodons. Because they ceased being within the purview of wildlife enforcement when they went extinct.
So the best part about ‘reviving’ the Woolly Mammoth will be getting to hunt them on one of the high-fence game preserves in Texas. And now that private companies are cloning everything from polo ponies to pet dogs and cats, it’s as certain as God made little green apples that somebody, maybe not in Texas, but somewhere, will be selling Woolly Mammoth trophy hunts. And if people are willing to pay a $25,000 trophy fee for an African bull elephant that’s old and winding down, imagine what they’ll pay to get to hunt a mammoth in its prime.
Ken Owen is getting along in years but I’d bet he’s got a few more 4-bore double rifles left in him.
That may indeed happen but it will probably be at least a hundred years in the future...............