There are many such programs, although wolves are controversial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_reintroduction#Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spec

There are many such programs, although wolves are controversial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_reintroduction#Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_reintroduction#Europe Hypocritical seems a bit strong though. The extinctions in europe happened a long time ago, those people are dead. Conservation may stand in the way of a particular guy's dinner but it's not like shooting all the gorillas is the key to Uganda getting to first-world living standards -- the advice that they are worth more alive than dead is probably sound.