Wired profiles the work of veterinarian Olivier Bertrand and Dutch conservationist Joep van de Vlasakker who hope to restore ancient European ecosystems through a process called rewilding. link
The idea we learn is that...
Ten thousand years ago, Europe belonged to megafauna: mammoths, bison, tarpans (a stocky horse), and ancestors of modern cattle called aurochs. They grazed in a landscape of meadows and forest that looked a lot like parts of Lake Pape today. The end of the Ice Age and a growing human population wiped out nearly all of them.
Today, the idea that you can use those same animals, or modern analogs like elephants and Przewalski's horses, to restore an ancient ecosystem is called rewilding, and it goes far beyond conservation. In theory, we could re-create conditions that last existed when mammoths walked the earth and the environment was healthier and more diverse.
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