Viewing entries tagged with 'Bison'
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Bison and Biodiversity
In an article published on National Geographic NewsWatch, Jordan Schaul reports on the effect of wood bison on its environment. "Wood bison will balance an ecosystem which has been inappropriately manipulated by people for hundreds of years".
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European bison in Bialowieza, Poland; to feed or not to feed?
An interesting article on feeding or not feeding European bison in the primeval forest of Bialowieza was written in the Guardian by Damian Carrington.
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Alarming situation of Bison in Ukraine
In the middle of 1990th the numbers of wisent in Ukraine represented about a third of the total world population, and counted from 664 to 685 individuals. Since then, in the last 20 years the Ukrainian livestock of this species decreased by three times.
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Bison reintroduction 'Rothaargebirge', Germany
Large Herbivore Foundation supports the Wisent-Wildnis-Wittgenstein e.V. bison reintroduction project in the 'Rothaargebirge', Germany.
Siegen-Wittgenstein and Hochsauerland administrative districts, North Rhine-Westphalia, this pilot and development project's main aim is to establish a free-ranging herd of European bison in an approximately 6,900 ha area of the Rothaargebirge region. Based on the supporting capacity of the land, the ultimate size of the bison herd is estimated at 20 to 25 animals.
The project is intended to make an active contribution towards conserving the European lowland bison that goes significantly further than breeding efforts in zoos. Reintroducing the bison will also extend the range of large indigenous herbivore species and refill a currently vacant ecological niche for grass and roughage eaters.
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Bison and Human Interaction with field-excursion
Overveen Workshop results about Wild bison in the Netherlands published!
Stephen Decker (Canadian Memorial Universite, New Foundland) wrote the full workshop report.