Should scientists use cloning to save extinct animals, like the Ibex?
Cloning in order to study the living specimens can be a gold mine of information and research in the field of biology, but I doubt there is a value, or a real intent, to “save” in the sense that we’d clone enough of them for them to breed and be re-introduced into the wild, being given a ‘second chance’–that is, unless there is a real and VERY significant (just imagine how much time, effort, and money it would take to bring a species from extinct to eminent from scratch!) benefit overall to them being ‘reborn’ that way. Overall, yes, of course this should be done if it can be. Not doing so would be akin to not building a better telescope even if we had all the resources to. There’s no good reason to restrain our own pursuit of knowledge when it comes to this particular subject, and I’d have hard time thinking of ethical concerns when we’re talking about bringing a creature BACK TO LIFE for science.
