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During the Pleistocene, large populations of Proboscideans lived in North America, such as the Woolly and Columbian and Pygmy mammoths, and the American mastodon. The mastodons all became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene era, as did the mammoths of North America.
17 sie 2005 · North America lost most of its large vertebrate species — its megafauna — some 13,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene. And now Africa's large mammals are dying, stranded on a...
A plan to restore animals that disappeared 13,000 years ago from Pleistocene North America offers an alternative conservation strategy for the twenty-first century, argueJosh Donlan and colleagues.
Pleistocene rewilding can begin immediately with species such as Bolson tortoises and feral horses and continue through the coming decades with elephants and Holarctic lions. Our exemplar taxa would contribute biological, economic, and cultural benefits to North America.
10 sty 2022 · Pleistocene dreams: recreating ancient grasslands to save the planet. Sergey Zimov is rewilding a remote part of northeastern Siberia to help fight climate change. By. Olga Dobrovidova. Sergey...
1 gru 2006 · Pleistocene rewilding would deliberately promote large, long-lived species over pest and weed assemblages, facilitate the persistence and ecological effectiveness of megafauna on a...
Pleistocene rewilding offers an experimental framework to better understand the biology of a continent that vanished 13,000 years ago, while simultaneously providing evolu-tionary, conservation, economic, and cultural incentives and benefits.
