Restore wolves or slaughter deer to save Japanese forests?

Mongabay
Nov 20, 2018, 2:02 pm340 pts
From the peak of Mt. Rausu, a clear view of the Shiretoko Peninsula opens from the Okhotsk Sea on the west to the Pacific Ocean on the east. Below, a dense green boreal forest of conifers, maples, and birch hides hundreds of brown bears and 590,000 sika deer. Japanese wolves once roamed this wilderness but…

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