[sumo89]

The saddest part is if you image search "Marco Polo argali" it's a wall of hunters posing with dead ones and right in the first paragraph on wikipedia is "Their conservation status is "near threatened" and efforts have been made to protect their numbers and keep them from being hunted"

[kenmacd]

It's an interesting question as to if what this man did was helpful or harmful to those conservation efforts.

It's at least possible that someone who would otherwise have hunted one just to have the 'wall art' might have hunted a hybrid instead. Also from a purely genetic standpoint it increased the number of copies of that genetic code.

[astroid]

It's not really though, specifically because they are considered invasive to Montana. This thought experiment loses all merit in this case under that context.

He fucked up in multiple ways, outside of the cloning.

The animal (or 'parts') he imported was illegal and engangered. And he was set to further endanger the Montana flock with it's introduction.

This guy is a menace, F him.

EDIT: Oh yeah I forgot - all this effort was to sell the illegally imported / created animal which endangers the native animal population to bolster his business of raising unusual animals specifically for closed big game trophy hunting.

So he is fine with risking Montanas wildlife population to enrich himself and 'create' new franken-animals specifically to kill them when they are the right size.

I hope this guy perishes of old age in jail and this has a chilling effect on anyone else pulling this crap.