Restoring Biodiversity - 2/7/2023
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Articles
Climate and Big Beef - San Antonio entrepreneur and rancher Lew Moorman calls BS on fake beef.
Scientists Have Cracked the Origins of ‘Desert Kites,’ Massive Prehistoric Patterns That Were Carved into the Middle Eastern Desert - It is politically-correct to say that primitive humans were conservationists and wildlife managers. This is a myth.
As reported below, “Three recent peer-reviewed papers confirm popular hypotheses that the desert kites actually served as mass hunting traps, allowing early desert dwellers to kill entire herds of game at once.
“In 2014, the Jerusalem Post reported there were over 4,000 known desert kites, mostly spotted through Google Earth.”
Early native populations in North American used these extensively.
Videos
Barriers - Filled with incredible wildlife footage, BARRIERS captures the many challenges migrating big game animals encounter on their journeys, and the collaborative solutions that can keep migrations intact long into the future.
Releasing Beavers in Idaho - Fifth in a series about reintroducing beaver on the Fall River in Idaho, 5-miles Southwest of Yellowstone National Park.
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