What's your stance on bringing back extinct species?

[The Grand Nudger]

There's good reason to believe that in the case of mammoths and those species of tree and veg that had adapted specifically to them, it would. They're still around, but their range is tiny and their future uncertain. There are holes in our current ecosystems because, again to trees..it has not been very long since the mammoths went the way of the dodo. Enjoy.

The first Americans could not have known they were causing extinctions, and they could not have understood the implications. But we no longer have such an excuse. As Aldo Leopold has advised, “The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces.” We have tinkered, lost some of the most important pieces, and tried to put many where they don’t belong. That we will continue to tinker there is no doubt. Everything will depend on how intelligently we do it. And that will depend, in part, on our ability to see the ghosts that haunt our trees.

https://www.americanforests.org/article/...-mammoths/

Or, if we prefer, we could look to the success of modern day programs to revive, reintroduce, and profitably manage the remaining megafauna in species where what little of it that's left remains. It's not just good for the elephants. It's beneficial to the land and to the people. I just cant see the downside in practical or environmental terms. I wouldn't suggest bringing back their predators in any meaningful way, if we could - but ofc I assume that we're all the predator pressure any animal we competently manage might require. That's how it all went out in the first place.