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Betteridge's law.
In this case, while it might be possible to reproduce a member of an extinct species, if the conditions which cause the die-off of that species are unchanged then the species will still be extinct. The living individual would be a curiosity at best.
Not only that but would so few specimens be a minimum viable population? This would be a pretty large number of individuals to attempt true rewilding.