A naturalist’s approach with some enforcement help is more useful than the idea of cloning. Get out of the molecular genetics lab and into the field to assist with conservation. Ditch the white lab coat.

AS for the human condition, the problem started when humans placed themselves on a plane above the animals and nature. When populations increased through the last couple of centuries including in Africa then the issue of food, subsistence, and survival became a major issue. The animals did not cause any of this; however, promulgating the unimportance of the wild kingdom and pretending humans have any right to feel primaly more important than any other animal is tunnel vision and a trap in itself. Look around the urban and suburban neighborhoods. Conduct a survey of which households feel that they are the most important thing on the planet. This created the human condition. Animals did not create the problems,

We playing god more than ever by destroying the lion’s habitat at apocalyptic rates.

LOL @ diverting the money to the drug war. If anything there is too much money going to things like that. Notice how almost NOBODY mentions that we should spend more money on education, it all starts with education. Educate the people, and the problems work themselves out.

Speaking of god, don’t you think he would save the defenseless lions by smiting us? Maybe it’s god’s will that the lions be abolished because they are godless sinners.