And they don't want to put them into an animal park. Their goal is to just plop them into the Siberian tundra.
A New Company With a Wild Mission: Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth - The New York Times
A team of scientists and entrepreneurs announced on Monday that they have started a new company to genetically resurrect the woolly mammoth.
The company, named Colossal, aims to place thousands of these magnificent beasts back on the Siberian tundra, thousands of years after they went extinct.
The article briefly touches on it but the idea is that these big fuckers stomping around the Siberian tundra will do something to prevent the quickly deteriorating permafrost. There's an interesting video from a few years ago of a massive crater of collapsed permafrost. Like the ground just falling apart. I'll see if I can find it. This shit is a total hail mary though.
I think this is it