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Translocation of plains bison into Wood Buffalo National Park in 1920s, resulting in collapse of wood bison. As with other bison, the wood bison's population was devastated by hunting, loss of habitat, and other factors. By the early 20th century, they were regarded as extremely rare.
Wood bison reintroduction program in Sakha Republic. Since 2006, an outherd of wood bison sent from Alberta's Elk Island National Park was established in Yakutia, Russia [61] [62] [63] as a practice of pleistocene rewilding; wood bison are the most similar to the extinct steppe bison species (Bison priscus).
The North American species is composed of two subspecies, the Plains bison, B. b. bison, and the wood bison, B. b. athabascae, which is the namesake of Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada. A third subspecies, the eastern bison (B. b. pennsylvanicus) is no longer considered a valid taxon, being a junior synonym of B. b. bison. [3]
The bison have been placed in West Blean and Thornden Woods to restore complex habitats to help nature thrive and be more able to cope with climate change, and store more carbon in woodland to ...
The plains bison hybridized with the local 1,500–2,000 wood bison, and carried such diseases as bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis, which they introduced into the wood bison herd. [13] Since that time park officials have tried to undo this damage, making successive culls of diseased animals.
The European bison (pl.: bison) (Bison bonasus) or the European wood bison, also known as the wisent [a] (/ ˈ v iː z ə n t / or / ˈ w iː z ə n t /), the zubr [b] (/ ˈ z uː b ə r /), or sometimes colloquially as the European buffalo, [c] is a European species of bison. It is one of two extant species of bison, alongside the American bison.
The wood bison is the largest land mammal in North America, and is a keystone grazing herbivore from the region. Conservationists transferred thirteen wood bison from various Canadian wildernesses to this wildlife conservation center in 2006.
In 1909 the fence was finished and 325 bison were relocated to Buffalo National Park. However, 40–70 bison [10] evaded capture and became the ancestors of today's herd in Elk Island National Park. Since 2007, Parks Canada has actively managed a herd of about 400 pure-bred and disease-free plains bison [12] and 300 wood bison [13] in Elk ...