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If we can recreate the bird, we can recreate the environment for the bird too.


We have barely been able to do that for animals which are still living, but lost their natural environment. Assuming we can recreate a maintain an accurate environment to ensure the bird’s long term success is way, way too optimistic.


The time-honored solution for this is to exterminate invasive species on a small nearby island, and make that a reserve. New Zealand has employed extensively with quite a bit of success, and there are numerous small, uninhabited islands in Mauritius that seem like plausible options.


They have an active mammal extermination programme in NZ trying to deal with the threat to the native birds.

https://www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-releases/2016/predator-fr...


We can, but that assumes continued political will to do so. That's something we're definitely not good at.




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