Should We Clone A Woolly Mammoth to bring the species back from extinction?

sure not...

there are other good deeds that have to be made for the planet.... not ..clonig mammoths... :|

At this moment no. The biggest concern is our planet. At the moment the human population is growing exponentially and relatively soon all resources will become scarce. Our priorities should not be on bringing back extinct animals (especially ones that have huge home ranges and high resource demands such as the woolly mammoth), but to conserving and protecting our remaining wild areas. Our thoughts should not be on bringing back extinct species and in all honesty we probably shouldn't be using a lot of our time on protecting endangered/threatened species. Our concern should be on acquiring land to keep in its 'natural' state and to reduce the impacts of industry, farming and humans on the environment. We have to find a way to get this all under control in a timely matter or things are going to get insane pretty quickly. As a side note countries should probably consider doing something similar to what China does by only allowing families to have one child, but that's bad for the economy so that obviously won't happen....

Well...it may not be the brightest thing in the world to do, haha. Anyways, the world is controlled by balance of nature and food chains. Im going to go on both sides of this situation.

Pros-

It would prove and motivate scientists to start cloning other animals and possibly humans, which could lead to big great inventions.

We could gain more information about them to update what we already have, and maybe find out other things about other animals that lived during the time of the mammoths

Depending on what the Mammoth ate, we may be able to lcone what ever was in it's stomach if it hasnt been dissovled yet.

Cons-

The food chain would be ruined, we dont necessarily know what the mammoths ate, and if their main course was a plant that doesn't grow anymore, then they would die out anyways.

Any carnivors would either start killing the mammoths leaving their normal prey to overpopulate, or the mammoths would kill the carnivors by accident or on purpose from their weight.

Random Thought-

An elephant and a Mammoth could cross breed, haha that'd be an interesting animal.

Could we consider using the $ required to clone a mammoth for a more useful purpose? Like helping New Orleans or something like that.

no absolutely not,cloning is not a good thing to do and the animal is gone if we cloned it then there would only be one and when it died then it would be extinct again or you would have a whole herd of one wholly mammoth.

Scientists have been working on it but I have a feeling that they wont be able to pull it off. I don't think it would change anything dramatically in the ecosystem because they didn't hurt anything when they were here, and nothing changed when they were gone. How could there be a negative impact?

DNA degrades over time, and no existing mammoth DNA is likely to be viable.

No, there is no point. They died out for a reason. That money should be used to save our environment, not adding extinct species.

Yes!

NO! If we would then it could change the whole eco system!