Everyone remembers Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of Michael Crichton’s novel. The year was 1993 and we witnessed a beautiful union between science and fantasy.
On August 20th, Ansa Magazine shared news of the existence of Pleistocene Park, a few kilometres from Chersky on the border with Yakutia.
Resembling some kind of wonderland and built within the Russian Arctic Circle, Mattia Bagnoli (Ansa - Moscow) referred to it in a recent book of his as “the place where reality and dreams fuse, creating a new world.”
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Siberian Scientific Research Centre (NESS) was revealed by scientist Sergey Zimov and his son, Nikita, in pursuit of a seemingly absurd idea.
It is an unprecedented project aimed at fighting Climate Change, preserving Permafrost, as it releases significant volumes of greenhouse gases when it melts.
But how? By bringing woolly mammoths back to graze the ice!
World-renowned scholars, palaeontologists, biologists, scientists and researchers of all kinds regularly meet in this unique place, to collect samples and data, comparing findings.
These individuals share the belief that Pleistocene Park’s virtuous model is one that ought to be seriously considered by the international community.
The United States appears to be shifting in such a direction…
Ben Lamm, tech entrepreneur, and George Church, Harvard geneticist, are working together to bring back to life the woolly mammoth, through Colossal, one of Lamm’s startups. This scientific process is known as de-extinction.
The project has allegedly been aided by a 15 million dollar donation from Silicon Valley.
On the other hand, South Korea and Japan are working to recreate the mammoth or a modified version of the asiatic elephant, by experimenting with a classic cloning process.
We are finally beginning to realise that the atavistic hunger that brought humanity to act following a “take and escape” survival model, does not work anymore…
Now our future depends only on us.
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