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If Africa cannot establish a safe habitat for these creatures, we need to establish a breeding reserve for them in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleisto
by panglott 10y ago
If Africa cannot establish a safe habitat for these creatures, we need to establish a breeding reserve for them in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_rewilding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_rewilding
- adamnemecek 10y agoOne issue with that is that elephants tend to roam over thousands of miles and this could be tricky in the US if an elephant herd came to town. Fun fact, they actually have a 'built-in gps', one elephant can tell another elephant about a location thousands of miles away and the other elephant is able to locate it, https://www.thedodo.com/elephants-travel-humans-help-1353631970.html https://www.thedodo.com/elephants-travel-humans-help-1353631... Also it's not just about saving the species but also about the fact that elephants are super important for the ecosystem. Like some of the ecosystems could collapse without elephants.
- dTal 10y agoTIL I have a built-in GPS. Neat.
- moosey 10y agoI personally agree with this, but even here on the West Coast (Washington State) we have had recent kill offs of endangered wolf packs, all because they killed a few cattle. Yes, there would likely be better protection, however the ramifications of such a thing makes it unlikely to pass. Where would they go and who would pay for the ensuing destruction of property, as would happen. I am very much willing to pay for it through taxes, but this is probably not very politically palatable, which is a statement about the sad state of our politics.
- panglott 10y agoNote I'm also a fan of the Buffalo Commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Commons