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Nature 437, 476 (22 September 2005) | doi:10.1038/437476a; Published online 21 September 2005

Re-wilding: no need for exotics as natives return

Eric Dinerstein1 & W. Robert Irvin2

  1. Conservation Science, World Wildlife Fund, 1250 Twenty-Fourth Street, NW, Washington DC 20036, USA
  2. US Ecoregional Conservation, World Wildlife Fund, 1250 Twenty-Fourth Street, NW, Washington DC 20036, USA

In their Commentary "Re-wilding North America" (Nature 436, 913–914; 2005), Josh Donlan and colleagues propose introducing Asian and African species to the Great Plains. But they do not discuss a real effort that is already under way to restore native North American prairie wildlife on the Northern Great Plains.

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