Scientists have cloned the first US endangered species: A black-footed ferret that died 30 years ago
Scientists have cloned the first US endangered species, a black-footed ferret duplicated from the genes of an animal that died over 30 years ago. The slinky predator named Elizabeth Ann, born Dec. 10 and announced Thursday, is cute as a button. Elizabeth Ann was born and is being raised at a Fish and Wildlife Service black-footed ferret breeding facility in Fort Collins, Colorado. She’s a genetic copy of a ferret named Willa who died in 1988 and whose remains were frozen in the early days of DNA technology.
Following Professor John Mark Ramseyer’s controversial article on the nature of Japan’s wartime sex slaves, US schools have decided to take effort to raise awareness against the Japanese right’s historical distortion of comfort women. The World History Digital Education Foundation (WHDEF) announced yesterday local time, that they have undertaken a new project to properly educate students in elementary, middle and high school on the truth regarding the Japanese military’s forced sexual slavery. As of right now, California is the only state where the account of ‘comfort women’ appears in textbooks. The plan is to deal with the issue when addressing other war crimes or human trafficking cases.
*Trafficking : the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others.