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The Northern White Rhino – one of the most endangered species on the planet – is nearly extinct, with only two female rhinos in the world.
The species was wiped out by the poaching crisis in North Africa in the 1970s and the 1980s, when a demand for rhinoceros horn eventually wiped out the entire male population.
However, the last male White Rhino, a 43-year-old man named Sudan, died in Kenya in March of this year.
– Extinguishing of the Northern White Rhino was attributed to the African Poaching Crisis of the 1970s and 1980s, where the increasing demand for rhinoceros horn has wiped out its population.
But immediately after the death of the last male rhinoceros, the scientists extracted and froze But Ms. Strachan, who presented The Really Wild Show !, Countryfile and Autumnwatch for the BBC, said the new initiative was wrong.
Michael Ball on BBC Radio 2: "I think it's crazy, I think we should definitely put our money into things we can save and environments that we can save."
Continuing she said, "I read a few days ago that they took sperm before his death and they are now going to put it in a southern white rhino and they're going to hopefully create and clone something.
"Personally, I think it's an absolute madness. I think we should use the huge amount of money that costs to save what we can save now.
"We are so overcrowded on this planet.
Scientists plan to take eggs from the last surviving northern white females and artificially inseminate them with the frozen ones.
They will then implant the eggs in females of Southern White Rhino to act as surrogate mothers.
The team hopes that the Rhino calves will be born in the next three years and bring the subspecies to the limit Extinction
Professor Thomas Hildebrandt, Head of the Department of Reproductive Management at the 39 Leibniz Institute for Zoological and Wildlife Research in Berlin, announced the initiative early July
The cost of the program is estimated at about $ 9 million. (£ 6.7 million)
Professor Hildebrandt told the Telegraph: "They have a very good chance of establishing a pregnancy once implanted in a surrogate mother."
"We will begin by planting an embryo hybrid in the coming weeks and months to test the system, and after this success, we will plant a white rhinoceros in a surrogate
" We hope that in three years we will will have the first white Rhino calf from the North. "
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