Over millions of years, thousands of different species have gone extinct. Most were due to "natural selection", while several others were due to human intervention. According to the Encarta Encyclopedia, 1997, "nearly two-thirds of all the native bird species and one-tenth of the native plants originally found on the

Hawaiian Islands have gone extinct recently. Most of these losses have been of species unique to the Hawaiian archipelago. Predators, competitors, or diseases introduced by humans from continental areas are responsible for the demise of many of the animals. Many remaining species on oceanic islands are threatened or endangered." With cloning, many of the animal species, and potentially several of the plant species could be brought back to life. Even though there is currently no technique for bringing the plants back, with technology advancing so quickly, we could have a solution quite soon. Cloning, though now limited to animal subjects, potentially has significant human applications.

Due to the overwhelming positive implications, society must embrace this new technology. The science of cloning should be used because it could resurrect extinct animals, give couples new hope, and medical science could now have a new tool that could potentially save thousands of lives. Clonin

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