Distracted from what I should be doing by this: Lutz in particular came to view de-extinction of the aurochs as crucial to National Socialism and the Nazi party’s ideology. He also saw it as integral to recreating the mythical German landscape of ancient times, when the Aryan race was pure and unthreatened.
(And another book added to my (ever-growing) To-Read list: Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things)