I considered doing it here but between all the challenges in such tiny patches of earth it might not be worth the effort

I haven’t done mine as I’ve been growing in little containers.

A map I saw which I can’t seem to find again suggested my spot might be low risk, however I was between points of low and high contamination. Also back when I was more capable of digging over what soil is there I found discarded chunks of concrete and building materials buried in a lazy disposal by the builders.

So that’s a concern. I’m now wondering if I should have let the cat eat grass from there

No worries. Someone mentioned soil testing to me ages ago but I didn’t look into it again until I saw people encouraged to get into subsistence gardening. Thought it might be good to spread the info

Unfortunately what little soil I have available isn’t great for the purpose

I completely didn’t think about birds as pollinators. Nice.

Unfortunately I’m not in a position to plant trees. The little soil I have is also constantly overrun by invasive creeping grass from under a neighbour’s fence. But even if it’s just providing a makeshift water source/bathing dish during Summer I’ll see what I can do

Oh yeah. Even knowing the mix was natives I was going through the list of species on the packet for a quick check one by one.

It would have to be Australian natives only

That’s cool. I checked if you can clone from RNA and by converting it you can. With a donor egg and a surrogate (Tasmanian Devil or quoll are apparently the closest living relatives) you could try to reintroduce them.

If the embryos were viable. If they survived. And (big if) if funding was available and ethics were above board.

Do you reckon they could make hybrids and then selectively breed them closer to thylacines?

Any attempts might have to happen that way if they were to breed naturally. Because the clones would always be the same sex as the original unless you could manipulate the genes. Also they would all get horribly imbred by being clones.