Just when many misanthropes were ready to throw in the towel with me up jumps the Y2Y project. That is short for Yellowstone to Yukon Project. World Wildlife Fund and several Canadian Universities want to configure a 2500 mile long and 500 mile wide animal friendly migration corridor. It will have animal crossing areas above and below freeways, grids on train crossing areas that will inhibit train caused animal deaths, motorists advisaries about times to avoid use of rodes, etc. These simple steps have shown positive results in field tests already. The y2Y project was inspired by a radio- collared she-wolf who roamed both a wild and a relatively heavily populated human area for over 5 years before she, her 5 pups and mate were shot. The extent of the range she traveled was over 44,000 square miles. Her story was a Homeric -like epic. Her name was Pluie ( ploo-wee, that's French for rain).
Other examples of progress in animal and land conservation include the joint project of the Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund and Ted Turner. Their collaboration is about reintroducing bison onto what remains of the Great Plains that exist in private and public hands.
A more exotic project include reintroducing species in America that were wiped out by our ancestors app. 13,000 years ago. The species that once roamed included lions and elephants. Anyone out there that know someone with a 100,000-200,000 acre ranch that would like to make it a destination resort/refuge for exotic animals and humans? If so, please contact Josh Donlan of Cornell University.
How about it folks. We need more of the other creatures and less humans.
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