Someday the cockroaches should also become extinct, they 've survived on this planet for too long.
Unfortunately cockroaches breed like crazy ...and no one sells them off as remedy for cancer ...
4 ladies a left 2 in conservatory and 2 in zoo but he's the only male left. Problem is this 42-43 years old has so far failed at reproducing
I know
IVF is best chance to save endangered northern white rhino, scientists say | Environment | The Guardian
Talks held in Kenya to come up with a last ditch plan to save the final five of the endangered species from extinction
Conservationists and scientists have held talks in
Kenya this week to come up with a last ditch plan to save the northern white rhinoceros from extinction.
There are
only five northern whites left on the planet: three live in a 700-acre enclosure on the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in central Kenya, where the emergency meeting was held on Tuesday, while the other two are kept in zoos in the Czech Republic and the US.
“The battle is to work out what is feasible scientifically in the short time still available to us,” Richard Vigne, Ol Pejeta’s chief executive, told AFP.
The best chance is the creation of a “test tube rhino” by in-vitro fertilisation (IVF).
The embryo could then be implanted in the womb of a surrogate southern white rhino, a closely related rhinoceros subspecies that is less endangered.
Past attempts at artificial insemination of northern white rhinos, carried out at the Dvur Kralove Zoo,
failed, and
surrogacy is untested.
Stores of frozen sperm and eggs could be used to revive the animal artificially, but neither method will provide an immediate solution, meaning the northern white rhino will likely disappear, at least for a while.
“
The science is just not there yet,” Vigne said.