Last chance: Study highlights perilous state of ‘extinct in the wild’ species

Mongabay
Mar 14, 2023, 3:16 pm294 pts
Hundreds of thousands of European bison once grazed the grassy slopes from Spain to Ukraine — until they gradually went extinct in the wild by 1927. But when the last free-roaming individual was shot, that wasn’t the end of the story for the species. Fifty-four bison remained in captivity, and from this…

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Last chance: Study highlights perilous state of ‘extinct in the wild’ species

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