Here's a report from the CBC

Peace and Love and Empathy,

Matt

Fellow B,

I'm going to start dumping news articles about species extinction in this thread. I could have made separate threads on each animal of some other form of taxonomy. I think this will be just will just as good. If you think this is a bad or good idea let me know.

Here's an article about the tigers in India. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/30/eatiger130.xml

This is a continuation of ideas presented in part 1, "The Giver Culture".   

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20181774/

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanId=sa013&articleId=BC67A20E-E7F2-99...

May 31, 2007

Slide Show: Bringing Back Europe's Prehistoric Beasts North America is fine for rewilding but Europe may be a better candidate thanks to close living relatives of its extinct megafauna By Jens-Christian Svenning

The Pleistocene was the heyday of megafauna, a span of geologic time when big mammals like mammoths, saber-toothed cats, woolly rhinos and giant ground sloths roamed the continents. The epoch lasted over one million years during which glaciers plowed the planet's surface, stretching and retracting across vast expanses. Near the beginning of the end of the Pleistocene some 50,000 years ago, much of the megafauna disappeared in synchrony with the spread of modern humans. This loss left the Holocene, the current geologic epoch (which began about 11,000 years ago) with a much impoverished megafauna. Species such as the American mastodon, dire wolf and giant deer are long gone, but some species, or at least their close relatives, have persisted into the present, giving scientists hope that Pleistocene-like megafauna and their ecosystems can be re-created.

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So, I've been thinking about renaturalization lately. Particularly the renaturalization or reintroduction of species that have been hunted to local extinction through the actions of man. I can think of a handful of really provacative animals this applies to - but I want right now to talk about wolves.

Below is another article tha highlights just how intricate and interlinked the web of life is.  A summary of the articles hypothesis is as follows:

White man comes, brings horses and diseases