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https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/nature-has-priority-rewilding-map-showcases-nature-led-restoration/>
"In the past decade, the European bison (Bison bonasus) has made a comeback in
Central and Eastern Europe. Hunters had killed the last known bison in the
region nearly a century ago. But thanks to reintroduction programs in Belarus,
Poland, Russia and Romania, nearly four times as many bison are alive today as
there were in 2003. The increase, to some 7,000 animals, was enough to prompt
the IUCN to downgrade the European bison’s conservation status from vulnerable
to near threatened in 2020.
The largest of Romania’s free-roaming herds lives in the Țarcu Mountains, a
low-slung range in the Southern Carpathians heavy with old-growth forest. The
reintroduction of the bison, including the recent addition of two males and six
females in 2020, is a collaboration of WWF Romania and the Netherlands-based
nonprofit Rewilding Europe. It’s also one of dozens of rewilding projects
featured on a new map from the Global Rewilding Alliance that was officially
launched April 11.
“I wasn’t aware that you have [wild bison] going through Romania,” said
Alexander Watson, CEO of OpenForests, the social enterprise company based in
Germany hosting the rewilding project map."
Via
The Fixer April 20, 2022:
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/kansas-city-giving-groves-orchards/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
