Extinction Savings Bank - About 30,000 species of plants and animals are becoming extinct each year as a result of pollution, over-fishing and other environmental abuse. Genetic techniques can already allow be used to preserve the DNA of these endangered species, which can be preserved until the cloning and genetic techniques will allow them to be re-created. It has been predicted that extinction saving banks will be created by the leading scientific and environmental groups to both save the DNA and to fund research into cloning the extinct species.