The Problem With Nitin Sekar’s “Bad Conservation” Argument

The Problem With Nitin Sekar’s “Bad Conservation” Argument

His case against reviving the mammoth depends on premises about funding and innovation that he asserts more than he proves. When a working conservation scientist calls mammoth de-extinction “bad conservation,” the verdict carries more weight than ordinary skepticism. Nitin Sekar has spent his career on elephants and biodiversity, so when he argues that money spent reviving extinct species is money taken from living ones, the claim lands with the…