Read the article. DNA that creates a plant completely dependent on pollination by a specific insect that is somewhere between extremely threatened and extinct -

Read the article. DNA that creates a plant completely dependent on pollination by a specific insect that is somewhere between extremely threatened and extinct - and no longer seems to occur in areas where this plant can grow at all. Yeah, that's going to work fine. This plant will never procreate without explicit human effort. We can do this for a few species of course, maybe even a few 1000. But it doesn't really change the fact that the species is extinct. It can't survive in nature and humans "saving" it for centuries won't change that, it will make it worse. We cannot seriously hope to recreate the entire environment these species depend on. We can only save the DNA. Cloning by itself is useless, in that it can only create a few new individuals that then proceed to die in a very unfriendly environment.