
The Hunt for the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tigers, Tasmanian Wolves, Cryptids)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Moral Responsibility of Humans for the Thylacines Extinct
It's widely believed that we had a direct role in their going extinct. Do we have moral blame for that? Well, not you and me personally or the listeners, we weren't even born yet. But it does appear that humans had a negative impact on thylacines. Early efforts towards thylacine conservation were inadequate. So I think it's arguable that there was a degree of moral responsibility on the part of some humans for the extinction of the thylacians.
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Transcript

The Thylacine or Tasmanian tiger lived in Australia for thousands of years, but went extinct in 1936. Or so they thought. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the reports that there are still thylacines in the wild as well as efforts to bring them back through DNA technology.
