More than 20 species have been successfully cloned, and there is now talk in some conservation circles of a veritable Jurassic Park-effect becoming essential, as the rate of species extinctions exceeds anything biologists even a generation ago could have imagined.

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Roland Manakaja, whose great-grandfather was Chief Manakaja, the tribe's last traditional chieftain, says the creation of the park had a disastrous effect on the tribe.

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