I admit that it’ss easy to say as someone in non-rural Germany, but still: I’d love to see more Bison in the wild – and not just in specified areas like a national park. A population of 4,000 bisons isn’t that large, there used to bve millions. Not like that area is cramped for space.
They were there first. Same goes for bears (and beavers, moutain lions, lynx) in Europe. We almost eradicated these animals, and now complain about complications when they dare try to come back.
On a different scale: Decimating a population so that colonial economic plans can thrive and then graciously letting a smaller group survive in an underfunded specified area where tourists can ogle at them is basically the main pattern of behavior of Europeans in North America.
Thoughts?