Blog - Revive & Restore

Aug 26

By Land and Sea, Looking to Restore a Planet in Crisis

By RandR ADMIN De-Extinction, Heath Hen

The Vineyard Gazette Noah Asimow – August 22, 2019 Buried deep within the woods of the Manuel Correllus State Forest is a statue of Booming Ben, the world’s final heath hen. Once common all along the eastern seaboard, the species…

Jun 21

Ocean Genomics Horizon Scan Press Release

By RandR ADMIN Ocean Genomics Horizon Scan

New Tools to Accelerate Ocean Conservation Read Online at PRNewswire Here The world’s oceans are in great peril. To help conservation and to reverse the trends of oceanic degradation, we must innovate and employ every available tool. More help is...

Oct 25

First Catalyst Fund Grant Awarded

By RandR ADMIN Catalyst Science Fund

Advancing Coral Conservation Revive & Restore is pleased to announce that the first grant from our recently launched Catalyst Science Fund has been awarded to marine biologist Steve Palumbi’s laboratory at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station. The $100,000 research grant...

Oct 10

Meet the Scientists Bringing Back Extinct Species From the Dead

By RandR ADMIN De-Extinction, Passenger Pigeon

Meet the Scientists Bringing Extinct Species Back From the Dead Wall Street Journal – October 9, 2018 “The last known passenger pigeon—a bird named Martha—died in captivity at a Cincinnati zoo in 1914. Her demise sparked the passing of modern...

Aug 23

Revive & Restore’s Catalyst Science Fund

By RandR ADMIN Catalyst Science Fund

Traditional conservation tools can be limited in addressing challenges like climate change, but advances in biotech provide fertile ground for breakthroughs. @Promega commits $3M to @Revive_Restore's Catalyst Science Fund to develop new biotech tools for conservation. (1/2) — Revive &...

Mar 27

5 Biotechnologies That Might Help Save Endangered Species

By RandR ADMIN Genetic Rescue

Sudan, the last male northern white rhino at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya. Sudan died March 19, 2018. Photo credit: MEAACT/Stuart Price. (This article was originally published in Fortune, March 20, 2018.) By: Nishan Degnarain and Ryan Phelan We are...

Mar 19

A Surprise Donation from the Gaming Industry

By RandR ADMIN Funding

We weren’t quite sure what to think when Tap4Fun first asked if they could host a donation event for Revive & Restore’s Woolly Mammoth Revival Project in their game, Brutal Age. So we Googled them: Tap4fun, with its headquarters located in…

Mar 14

Experimental Investigation of the Dietary Ecology of the Extinct Passenger Pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius

By RandR ADMIN Passenger Pigeon, Revive & Restore

The passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) was the dominant species in eastern North American forests for tens of thousands of years prior to its extinction in 1914. The birds lived in megaflocks comprising up to several billion individuals, moving nomadically as…

Jan 22

9 Cool Genetic Tools that Could Save Biodiversity

By RandR ADMIN Biotechnology, Genetic Rescue

This article was originally published on January 17, 2018 by the World Economic Forum as part of the WEF 2018 Annual Meeting. Written by: Nishan Degnarain National Ocean Council of the Government of Mauritius Ryan Phelan Co-founder and Executive Director...

Nov 16

The Paradoxical Passenger Pigeon Genome

By RandR ADMIN Passenger Pigeon

Image credit: Tim Hough Natural selection shaped the rise and fall of passenger pigeon genomic diversity The passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) numbered between 3 billion and 5 billion individuals before its 19th-century decline and eventual extinction. In fact, the species...