Pleistocene Re-wilding
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Pleistocene re-wilding refers to reintroducing animals that disappeared from the North American continent 13,000 years ago, particularly its megafauna (Donlan 913). The plan by conservationists is to promote the restoration of large wild vertebrates into North America, which they say will otherwise become overrun with 'pests and weeds' which they identify as rats and dandelions. The animals would be reintroduced in a series of carefully managed ecosystem manipulation, and they would use closely-related species to those which are extinct, and change the emphasis of conservation biology from preserving animals from extinction to actively restoring natural processes. The reasoning behind the project is fourfold: first, that there is no longer such a thing as a pristine ecosystem since human activities have pervaded every such system; secondly, they say that environmentalists are usually portrayed as conveyors of 'doom and gloom' - maybe this would improve their image; thirdly, certain areas of the United States, particularly the Great Plains, are losing human populations; and fou
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