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LESSON 2 · The Extinction Crisis

PAUSE TO THINK

How many individual European bison remained in 1927?

Twelve

Hunted to near-extinction by the early 1900s, every living European bison descends from just twelve captives. Reintroduction has recovered the population to over 7,000 wild individuals across Europe.

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