Pleistocene Park in Siberia: restoring a vanished Ice Age ecosystem

in #nature7 years ago

Project Pleistocene Park, located in faraway Siberia corner, near to the Arctic Ocean coast has a goal to rewild lifeless tundra to tundrosteppe - ecosysteme with mammal density higher, than in present Africa savanna.


Image: Pleistocene Park Twitter

I wrote about this project here:

https://steemit.com/science/@busser/re-creating-pleistocene-mammoth-steppe-in-northern-siberia

and here: 

https://steemit.com/science/@busser/re-creating-pleistocene-mammoth-steppe-in-northern-siberia-continue

The short video about a project:

Now Pleistocene Park is running a Kickstarter. This project will only be funded if it reaches its goal by Sun, April 9 2017 2:55 PM +03:00. As of today, about $60 000 of $106 000 collected with 11 days left.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/907484977/pleistocene-park-an-ice-age-ecosystem-to-save-the?token=1af7c89f

Image Zimov Instagram

The great article about project in International Business Times, highly recommended for reading: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/how-restoring-vanished-ice-age-ecosystem-could-help-save-world-global-warming-1613946?utm_campaign=/how-restoring-vanished-ice-age-ecosystem-could-help-save-world-global-warming-1613946

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I remember hearing about this on a science radio show, they even mentioned repopulating with cloned woolly mammoths. We now have the ability to bring back some of the species man made extinct.

This is a long term goal, a 10th step. We are in the beginning now. There is a broad discussion about elephants on project's FB page https://www.facebook.com/PleistocenePark/?fref=ts

Good job! Thanks for the pleasure!

Thank you for reading

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