The 2020 DOI Bison Conservation Initiative's goals: Wild, Healthy Bison Herds: A DOI commitment to conserve bison as healthy wildlife. Genetic Conservation: A DOI commitment to an interagency, science-based approach to support genetic diversity across DOI …

The conservation of bison in North America is an ongoing, diverse effort to bring American bison (Bison bison) back from the brink of extinction. Plains bison, a subspecies (Bison bison bison), are a keystone species in the North American Great Plains.

2020年11月5日 · The 2020 Bison Conservation Initiative builds on previous DOI conservation efforts and reaffirms commitments to large, wild, connected, genetically diverse and healthy bison herds and to conservation that includes shared stewardship, ecological …

2023年5月21日 · The American bison (also called a buffalo) is iconic, yet what do we know about them? Get to know the bison and how we're helping protect them across the U.S. Learn how The Nature Conservancy is protecting the once nearly extinct American bison across 12 preserves in the central United States.

2023年11月2日 · Once numbering ~30 million and ranging across the United States and in Canada and Mexico, bison were hunted to near extinction, with only several hundred remaining by the 1870’s. Through ongoing conservation work, bison are recovering from a low of fewer than 1,000 individuals.

The goal of the Bison Conservation and Transfer Program is to rehome Yellowstone-origin bison to Native American Tribes and support the ecological and cultural conservation of this iconic species.

Conservation threats to American bison include habitat loss, hybridization in managed populations and low genetic diversity among individual herds. While bison have made a comeback since their population was devastated over 100 years ago, the species is still heavily dependent on conservation action for survival.

Six Federal herds established between 1907 and 1919 are the foundation of contemporary conservation bison, requiring science-based management to conserve the species as native North American wildlife.

2024年11月1日 · Through a Letter of Intent, the countries will work to pursue bison conservation, restore ecological processes, and support traditional human use of natural resources with a particular focus on the unique historical connection between bison and Indigenous peoples.

2020年5月7日 · WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt today announced the Bison Conservation Initiative (BCI), a new cooperative initiative that will coordinate conservation strategies and approaches for the wild American Bison over the next 10 years.