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re-wilding review

Bringing back whatever wildlife and wild places we can could be seen as your damn duty as a human, if not what is good for your soul. I have no interest in hearing about what is possible to do; not if those possibilities are only what we consider after we've taken all we want from this beautiful rock we live on.
There are other things worth living for than deciding where to fit our burst-over-the-beltline population and then feeding them and giving them cars. I'm for this proposal because it's proactive: it shows that there is hope for an upswing, and here is a way act on it(I'm not denying that there are many other ways to get hope up or to be proactive). It's also got evolutionary and ecological sense in it. There is a ton that we can learn from trying it out!

When I heard about this, I looked for the article that had come out in Nature...you can read the PDF here:

http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/donlan/PDFS/Re-wildingNorthAmerica.pdf

 I also heard there is a more in-depth coverage of the science behind the proposal that will be published soon.On How a plan to return big beasts to North America raised hackles and hopes posted 4 years ago 4 Responses