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Genetic rescue & de-extinction. The Genetic Rescue Foundation https://www.geneticrescue.science/ and Revive & Restore http://longnow.org/revive/ have research projects that are advancing the scientific techniques required to do this. Having YC Research also take an interest in this would help to expand a field that already has the attention of some pretty talented individuals e.g. George Church.

Human beings are now the curators of planet earth. This is the Anthropocene era. We can either continue to intentionally and unintentionally destroy the earth's biodiversity; or through technology we can develop the means to preserve it.

We're not preserving biodiversity because panda's are cute and starving polar bear pictures make us sad. We're doing it because biodiversity is useful to humans and it takes a very long time to get it back when it's gone.

Science Exchange (YC S11) is solving this problem. The basic idea is that instead of the "authorship bartering" model that's pervasive in research today we move towards a market-based collaboration model. Basically we encourage researchers to collaborate because it's financially lucrative to do so. By making researchers wealthy they're able to release themselves from being dependent on prestige publications for generating funding. As a result of this we can start to deprecate the somewhat toxic "public or perish" incumbent system. If your entire livelihood relies on being published in a high impact journal you're incentivized to do anything to make that happen. That is not a system that promotes accuracy of information.

You could organize a project to run under the Genetic Rescue Foundation's umbrella. We're currently sequencing the genome of the extinct moa. http://blog.scienceexchange.com/2015/06/sequencing-the-genom... .

We're also proposing to sequence the genomes of all 125 remaining kakapo. https://www.geneticrescue.science/projects/genome-sequencing... . If you have a conservation project in mind we can help you to publicize and crowdfund it if necessary.

So you can help out by organizing your own conservation project or by getting involved with our existing projects. Email info at geneticrescue.science to continue the conversation. Thank you for your interest!

Please take a look at https://www.geneticrescue.science. We're looking for collaborators to help advance the science of genetic rescue and de-extinction.

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