Biodiversity crumbling worldwide, what if we could hit rewind on extinct animals? Margot Abayomi Memorial Evergreen Foundation says store their DNA now, regen later through biotech magic.
Co-founder Dr Dayo Abayomi laid it out in Abuja Monday: DNA’s life’s blueprint—save it from endangered critters like pangolins, and future scientists could reboot them. “Stick that genetic code into a host animal, boom new pangolin born,” she explained, nodding to egg-freezing tech evolving to core replication.
Think ancient DNA from fossils already cloned in labs. Without banks today, tomorrow’s innovators lose the raw material for species revival amid habitat crush, climate chaos.
Foundation’s walking the talk: Three siblings safeguarding Emerald Forest Reserve in Ikoyi-Osun—a river-hugging biodiversity hotspot fighting deforestation, floods, erosion. Their mission? Conservation, advocacy, education, partnerships for Nigeria’s wildlife heritage.
Abayomi urges: Pump cash into science, craft policies, wake the public don’t let rich ecosystems vanish, robbing future gens of resilience and breakthroughs.
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