Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2005 17:00:46 GMT -5
Elephants, lions to roam North America again?
Plan to reintroduce large mammals, ecological history parks
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior writer
Updated: 1:22 p.m. ET Aug. 17, 2005
Cheetahs, lions, camels and elephants would roam wild in the United States under a new proposal to re-introduce large animals similar to those that humans hunted to extinction long ago.
The U.S. Ecological History Park, as it is billed by scientists, would help preserve species that are under increasing pressure for survival in Africa. It would also re-create a more balanced predator-prey relationship in the Great Plains and Southwest, an ecological diversity that has been absent for more than 10,000 years thanks at least in part to hunting pressure.
Source and more: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8983461/
While I can see atleast some of the benfits, I get the feeling that there would be quite a few problems, opposition from the local communities included.
Plan to reintroduce large mammals, ecological history parks
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior writer
Updated: 1:22 p.m. ET Aug. 17, 2005
Cheetahs, lions, camels and elephants would roam wild in the United States under a new proposal to re-introduce large animals similar to those that humans hunted to extinction long ago.
The U.S. Ecological History Park, as it is billed by scientists, would help preserve species that are under increasing pressure for survival in Africa. It would also re-create a more balanced predator-prey relationship in the Great Plains and Southwest, an ecological diversity that has been absent for more than 10,000 years thanks at least in part to hunting pressure.
Source and more: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8983461/
While I can see atleast some of the benfits, I get the feeling that there would be quite a few problems, opposition from the local communities included.
