There are no Thylacines left. If there were, one would have been road killed by now.
Source. Australian. Have had near misses with every kind of non-extinct Australian wildlife while riding motorbikes around tassie.
Source. Australian. Have had near misses with every kind of non-extinct Australian wildlife while riding motorbikes around tassie.
We don't know the economics of recreating an extinct species, but would be most probably not only technically challenging, but also very expensive. Even if we technically could bring back the rainforests to small areas of the sahara, the probability of seeing it done is zero. Is possible, but the huge resources needed are limited and would not allow it.
Saving the vaquita or the totoba, or the frogs, can be challenging but is easier and much cheaper than trying to bring back the same animals from the extinction tomorrow.
I personally would love to see a living Tasmanian tiger and while I don't think I ever will, maybe my grandchildren will.