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Bison to roam Siberia again
"In a way, it's like they're coming home,"
"We were glad to help. It's always exciting when you can help restore an area to how it was thousands of years ago and increase biodiversity,"
- Vasily Tikhonov, biologist
"We were glad to help. It's always exciting when you can help restore an area to how it was thousands of years ago and increase biodiversity,"
- Vasily Tikhonov, biologist
Yakutsk, Russia - More than 10,000 years ago, Asian bison crossed the Bering Strait land bridge and spread out across the great plains of North America.
A few thousand years later, they died out in Siberia, victims of over-hunting. Now, thanks to a Canadian donation of 30 of the hairy beasts, this vast tundra will once again echo with the rumble of bison hooves.