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Reintroduce Megafauna to North America?

sneakers563 writes "A team of scientists is proposing reintroducing large mammals such as elephants, lions, cheetahs and wild horses to North America to replace populations lost 13,000 years ago. The scientists say that parks could be set up as breeding sanctuaries for species of large wild animals under threat in Africa and Asia, and that such ecological history parks could be major tourist attractions. 'Africa and parts of Asia are now the only places where megafauna are relatively intact, and the loss of many of these species within this century seems likely,' the team said."

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  1. Active Reduction by Bimo_Dude · · Score: 1, Troll

    By putting the lions in Crawford (at a specific ranch), there would be an active reduction in the dangers to civilization.

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    "Teleporting Rodents with D-Cell Battery Displacement" theory -- IgnoramusMaximus (692000)
  2. Re:A Little Late by arthax0r · · Score: 1, Troll

    What really needs to happen is a reduction in human overpopulation, but I don't see that happening anytime soon either.

    Are you blind or do you just not have any contact with the outside world other than /.? If you haven't noticed, the Masonic/Illuminati vision of getting the world to destroy the middle class and move into a slave/master world is coming, and soon. They are in the pre-phase of WWIII where they attempt to get the middle east to destroy itself and cause world-wide chaos where the only the strong will survive (and those weak they choose to keep around as slaves)