Nature Conservancy: Hundreds of Buffalo Return Home to Indigenous Communities
October 19, 2023
October 19, 2023
RAPID CITY, South Dakota, Oct. 19 -- The Nature Conservancy issued the following news:
Hundreds of buffalo, also known as American bison, will return to ancestral grazing lands across the United States this fall as part of a multi-state, Indigenous-led movement. More than 800 buffalo will head home to Indigenous communities, transferred in a large collective effort to restore this keystone species who are integral to thousands of natural relationships including the health of prairie . . .
Hundreds of buffalo, also known as American bison, will return to ancestral grazing lands across the United States this fall as part of a multi-state, Indigenous-led movement. More than 800 buffalo will head home to Indigenous communities, transferred in a large collective effort to restore this keystone species who are integral to thousands of natural relationships including the health of prairie . . .