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Nature 436, 913-914 (18 August 2005) | doi:10.1038/436913a; Published online 17 August 2005

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Re-wilding North America

Josh Donlan1,

  1. Josh Donlan is in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, New York 14853, USA.

aCo-authors are Harry W. Greene of Cornell University; Joel Berger who is at the Teton Field Office, Wildlife Conservation Society; Carl E. Bock and Jane H. Bock of the University of Colorado, Boulder; David A. Burney of Fordham University, New York; James A. Estes of the US Geological Survey, University of California, Santa Cruz; Dave Foreman of the Re-wilding Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Paul S. Martin of the Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson; Gary W. Roemer of the Department of Fishery and Wildlife Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico; Felisa A. Smith of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; and Michael E. Soulé who is based at Hotchkiss, Colorado.

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A plan to restore animals that disappeared 13,000 years ago from Pleistocene North America offers an alternative conservation strategy for the twenty-first century, argue Josh Donlan and colleagues.

North America lost most of its large vertebrate species — its megafauna — some 13,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene. And now Africa's large mammals are dying, stranded on a continent where wars are waging over scarce resources.

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