Rachel Fritts | Audubon Online, 2021 | Article
Unbeknownst to many, thanks to their eggs, birds are tremendously difficult to clone. But new technologies may provide a workaround for saving at-risk species.
Teresa Carey | FreeThink, 2021 | Article
I love the way they describe this bold project as, "The secret recipe: 40,000 genes, plus one."
Ben Novak, Ryan Phelan and Michele Weber | Conservation Science and Practice, 2021 | Article
We conducted this research to show that over the past 125 years, and all across the US, over 1,000 animal and plant species have been introduced and reintroduced — without causing environmental harm.
Stewart Brand | Penguin Books, 2010 | Book
Stewart Brand's prescient chapter on "Romantics, Scientists, Engineers" highlights the tension between hands-off environmentalists letting nature take its course and the emerging more 21st century attitude calling for a need to intervene and to engineer new solutions for conservation.
Produced by Revive & Restore, April 2021 | Watch
This video chronicles how a 33-year-old cell line was cryopreserved and the cast of characters, and institutions, who collaborated to bring back the equivalent of a genetically identical twin in order to restore lost genetic diversity to this endangered species.
Produced by Revive & Restore, July 2020 | Watch
To make vaccines safe, almost all drug manufacturers still rely on the blood of the horseshoe crab, a threatened, keystone species. Eli Lilly is the first pharmaceutical company to switch to using a synthetic version. We need other pharmaceutical companies to do the same and switch to rFC, the synthetic version, to save the horseshoe crab.
Hosted by Dr. Grey Stafford | Zoo Logic, 2020 | Listen
The historic news of the successful birth of an endangered Przewalski's Horse foal went viral on social media in 2020. This interview captures the role of zoos for captive breeding and as enablers of genetic rescue.