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its Forests Not Cloning |
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"Cloning will not guarantee the diversity and
quality of panda genes and will be of no significance to their
conservation," Pan Wenshi saying.
Pan, who has studied pandas in the wild for two decades, dismissed the
widely accepted theory that the panda's threatened extinction is due to
declining fertility.
The damage done by mankind to its natural habitat is the main threat to
its existence.
While cloning may help produce better grades of livestock or animals for
medical experiments, Pan expressed skepticism that cloned pandas would
be able to survive in the wild.
He worries that cloning breakthroughs would absorb money that could be
better spent protecting the panda's habitat.
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