There's an ongoing project at Harvard led by Dr. George Church that is introducing woolly mammoth genes into the Asian elephant genome. While it won't be an exact copy of the woolly mammoth, the traits they introduce should be enough to allow them to survive and thrive in the Arctic. I think they already have some 50 genes or so introduced, and within about ten years, hopefully they'll be able to create a live hybrid with an artificial womb. The first generations will be raised alongside Asian elephants in zoos while exposing them to colder weather to get them used to it, and once a large enough population is created, they plan to introduce them to Pleistocene Park. There, they'll do the job of toppling trees and preventing the spread of forests, similar to how elephants will topple trees to eat the leaves and roots.
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Take a tour of Pleistocene Park in northeastern Siberia, where Russian ecologist Sergey Zimov and his son Nikita are studying how to rewild the Arctic. Introducing herbivores en masse to Siberia and northern Alaska, they believe, would bring back a lost biome-the mammoth steppe-and prevent permafrost from melting and releasing billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
This also needs to be done in the great plains in the western U.S. by returning the Bison. The Bison were perfect at eating every plant that grew on the land unlike cattle.
@@never2late454 there's a rewilding program in Montana called American prarrie reserve Which is reviving the great plains to it's former glory They have enough room to create bison herds larger than the ones in Yellowstone
@@mlgodzilla4206 we won't be able to create a true ice age nowadays. But we will be able to create a land reminiscent of the past, with forests and grasslands creating a healthy ecosystem.
@@forestdwellerresearch6593, his point is that while forests such as tropical rainforests support a great amount of biodiversity, the forests that dominate the Siberian landscape today are composed almost entirely of conifers and lack biodiversity and that grasslands similar to the African savannah would support a greater amount of biodiversity.
@@niceone5205 No i have never heard about Siberian tigers. And if you believe that you must be thicker than the shit my dog produces......my dog craps nicely.
@@loschrodproductions4519 not really. It would have the same instinct to eat grass, sure, but since both African and Asian elephants come from typically hot environments they wouldn't have the instinct to, say, dig through the snow for food or huddle for warmth. It can be learned eventually, sure, but a couple of them would die of hunger or cold and then there's a valuable asset lost
No need! We have so many in-tact mammoth remains that we could clone a bunch, implant in a Zoo elephant, and then breed the resulting Mammoths. The challenge would be to teach the babies how to survive in the wild, but some early behaviors could probably be learned from the elephant mothers.
@@jaredstoltzfus1226 unfortunately with all those intact remains, there have not been any intact nuclei found with viable Dna, since pretty much all of it has already degraded. That being said, if we do manage to find that biological needle in a haystack, it would still take some time. We've only recently been able to do successful cross -species cloning. Not to mention the gestation period of elephant embryos makes it impractical for trial and error
what about przwalski horse, mooses, wapities or any other kind of deers? how long is this project going to take until the wildlife is finally established?
@@forestdwellerresearch6593 I don't think that the richest in the world care about this. We are suffering from covid 19 which is an answer to human being because we don't care about nature our home. And nature is going to punish us. And finally we don't realize how powerful it is and we will see.
@@jmed76 Covid is an answer to human beings? How do you come up with that nonsense? How many years have human beings been on the planet? Nature is going to punish us? How? Who do you speak for when you say that kind of stuff? You don't think the richest care? They are pretty busy pretending i thinkk but that i agree with.
This is not possible in Europe. We do this in the Asian part of Russia because there is a lot of open space and almost no one lives there. In European Russia or Ukraine, this is unlikely, in Western Europe there are simply no steppes
My question is do we need extinct fauna (like Woolly Mammoth and Steppe Bison)? Can we do the same thing using only the animals that live today? Like horses, Yaks, Yakalo (bison yak hybrid), raindeer, sheep, goat, wolfs tigers and bears?
@@nutyyyy Asian elephants wouldn’t survive the Arctic, and tho genetically Asian elephants are closer to mammoths, African elephants actually has more of the desired behavior of tipping trees over more often, still user either species wouldn’t work.
@Shivam Joshi I think on the contrary if you realize the bigger species or subspecies are more suitable for a cold weather since their bodies are bigger because they need more food to tolerate the climate as an example you see the Siberian tiger and the Javan Tiger or the Kodiak bear and the European brown bear. They lose less body heat.
@@roytheredpanda1592 they can but it doenst seem that ethical to bring them in since they already have places they can be introduuced to like a lot of africa
At the rate they are going, it will take hundreds of years, Siberia is a vast place. Two men, dependent on donations, doesn’t bode well for the success of this project. They would need the backing of millionaires and billionaires to make any appreciable headway!
There were a few animals there, only issue with this example is that they are in very close contact with each other and no intended predators beyond those that sneak in. Mammoths and wooly rhinos were pretty common, along with some large deer ( not moose, but elk and saigas) and horses. Not sure about bison though
Big herbivores have been wiped out in Siberia with the introduction of humans. When large herbivores died out, there was nobody to eat the new born trees and keep the steppe environment. Thus, an enormous conifer forest of minimum productivity rose where a lush grassland used to be. This conifer forest offers very little to sustain animal life.
Too violent, at least the cattle. The horses were extremely successful in their goal of being a recreation of ancient horses but heck cattle where a pale imitation. They were too small, horns too short and the oryx's fighting spirit was way too exaggerated in the breed, making it an angry mess
Auroch would be further south but still in Siberia I guess tarpans probably didn't exist in the mammoth steppe and there just the same species as the Yakutia horses Equus Ferus
Well there is a program for restoring saurian traits in certain avian species like chickens witch by the 2nd, 3rd and 4th generations could result in 100% genuine velociraptor or deinonychus.
I would be impressed if they were able to bring in spotted hyenas and African lions here as well, just like how cave hyenas and cave lions used to roam these lands, but it is probably next to impossible since hyenas and lions of today don’t have warm enough coats.
@@mnkash2007 yeah but usually those are in zoos where they can always go back into the indoor enclosure to warm up, in the wild it’d be much harder to warm up
@@pedrogabrielduarte4544 Vlad explained it properly for you. European Bison are not adapted to the Siberian climate, and the American is also a close ancestor of Steppe Bison
Its not its supposed to give the same effect as large herds of herbivores grazing as they would have before all the animals there got wiped out by complete coincidence when humans arrived.
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Imagine rewilding Siberia, millions of animals everywhere... ah, dreams.
@F.W. you mean that fake auroch look-a-like called heck cattle
Along with the North American Prairies.
They are working on it !
@@risyanthbalaji805 , those cattle are the closest relatives of the now extinct auroch .
;)
If we ever clone the woolly mammoth this will probaly be its home
Yeah
Just buy elephants a coat!!!
@@edouardomaindargent7685 i get that you're joking (in fact i love the joke), but they were being serious.
There's an ongoing project at Harvard led by Dr. George Church that is introducing woolly mammoth genes into the Asian elephant genome. While it won't be an exact copy of the woolly mammoth, the traits they introduce should be enough to allow them to survive and thrive in the Arctic. I think they already have some 50 genes or so introduced, and within about ten years, hopefully they'll be able to create a live hybrid with an artificial womb. The first generations will be raised alongside Asian elephants in zoos while exposing them to colder weather to get them used to it, and once a large enough population is created, they plan to introduce them to Pleistocene Park. There, they'll do the job of toppling trees and preventing the spread of forests, similar to how elephants will topple trees to eat the leaves and roots.
@@akpsyche1299 that is good to hear :)
Much respect to these two. Intrepid and compassionate.
I love this place the man is a genius
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Take a tour of Pleistocene Park in northeastern Siberia, where Russian ecologist Sergey Zimov and his son Nikita are studying how to rewild the Arctic. Introducing herbivores en masse to Siberia and northern Alaska, they believe, would bring back a lost biome-the mammoth steppe-and prevent permafrost from melting and releasing billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Can civilians visit it?
@@15multiventure51 Saying that you obviously didn't watch this video.
This ecosystem possible....recover
I am glad you explained that with relevant information about climatology and biology.....oh wait you did not.
We should start one in Alaska and Canada and maybe the Midwest is just one of us viewers should be dareing enough to convert a ranch into an ecosystem
Not sure if it's possible, but i hope it is.
I can definitely see Alaska and Canada doing it but it probably won't work in the midwest
@@jiovanirivera852 It could probably work in some parts of the midwest but nowhere near the scale you could get on Alaska or Canada
This also needs to be done in the great plains in the western U.S. by returning the Bison. The Bison were perfect at eating every plant that grew on the land unlike cattle.
@@never2late454 there's a rewilding program in Montana called American prarrie reserve
Which is reviving the great plains to it's former glory
They have enough room to create bison herds larger than the ones in Yellowstone
People forget that there was quite a bit of grassland, yes there was a hell of a lot more forests than we have now but there was also vast grasslands.
Yeah and there was many times. Many habitats. So your point is what exactly?
The thing is,the forest was caused by the increasing temperature at the end of the Pleistocene
@@mlgodzilla4206 we won't be able to create a true ice age nowadays. But we will be able to create a land reminiscent of the past, with forests and grasslands creating a healthy ecosystem.
@@forestdwellerresearch6593, his point is that while forests such as tropical rainforests support a great amount of biodiversity, the forests that dominate the Siberian landscape today are composed almost entirely of conifers and lack biodiversity and that grasslands similar to the African savannah would support a greater amount of biodiversity.
I hope they succeed. I think they are on the correct path.
Need some mammoths...
+sophrapsune And cave lions...
gotta have the apex predators as well for a really healthy ecosystem.
+sophrapsune Well, a japanese-russian scientific team is already working on it, let's hope they succeed soon.
Then you'd need cave hyenas...
Or at least a similar modern species to fill that same niche.
+IamTenzin some European Jaguars would be nice, or sabretooths
Are there any new plans for Pleistocene park
I believe theyre adding more horses and musk ox to the park. the next new part of the plan is to bring in camels and yaks I think
Luigifan1500 according to the website, they're planning to introduce more herbivores (most likely wood bison) by 2017
they've started a kickstarter campaign to get more animals
www.kickstarter.com/projects/907484977/pleistocene-park-an-ice-age-ecosystem-to-save-the
Actually yes. This year, they're hoping to bring Domestic Yak and a heard of American Plains Bison to the park.
They just acquired Edilbay sheep for the park this month.
And what about saigas, reindeers and others.
Reindeers were the first animals in the park,and saigas will be reintroduced there when they will have the capacity to do it
they should put the Siberain tiger to balance the ecosystem?
Bro
Wait let the herbivores multiply
Siberian tiger ,Wolf and Amur leopard are the confirmed apex predators to be introduced in the park when at least herbivores will reach 500.
Tigers use their range elsewhere for good reason. Fucking around with nature has always been a disaster. In general tigers go south, not north.
@@forestdweller5581 have you ever heard about siberian tigers?
@@niceone5205 No i have never heard about Siberian tigers. And if you believe that you must be thicker than the shit my dog produces......my dog craps nicely.
Luke! Looking forward to seeing the full film, buddy.
Life, uh, finds a way
Is it possible to genetically alter elephants to have fur again?
sonikku956 Maybe, but they could not survive because they would have elephant mentality, not Mammoth mentality
Bill Cipher33 it's the same mentality
@@loschrodproductions4519 not really. It would have the same instinct to eat grass, sure, but since both African and Asian elephants come from typically hot environments they wouldn't have the instinct to, say, dig through the snow for food or huddle for warmth. It can be learned eventually, sure, but a couple of them would die of hunger or cold and then there's a valuable asset lost
No need! We have so many in-tact mammoth remains that we could clone a bunch, implant in a Zoo elephant, and then breed the resulting Mammoths. The challenge would be to teach the babies how to survive in the wild, but some early behaviors could probably be learned from the elephant mothers.
@@jaredstoltzfus1226 unfortunately with all those intact remains, there have not been any intact nuclei found with viable Dna, since pretty much all of it has already degraded. That being said, if we do manage to find that biological needle in a haystack, it would still take some time. We've only recently been able to do successful cross -species cloning. Not to mention the gestation period of elephant embryos makes it impractical for trial and error
how to help:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/907484977/pleistocene-park-an-ice-age-ecosystem-to-save-the
what about przwalski horse, mooses, wapities or any other kind of deers? how long is this project going to take until the wildlife is finally established?
Jose Maria Elejalde Delgado mooses and wapitis are already in the park and roe-deer is on the way.
Do you think industrial society can ever help wildlife populations establishmeming back? Or is that delusion?
@@forestdwellerresearch6593 I don't think that the richest in the world care about this. We are suffering from covid 19 which is an answer to human being because we don't care about nature our home. And nature is going to punish us. And finally we don't realize how powerful it is and we will see.
@@jmed76 Covid is an answer to human beings? How do you come up with that nonsense? How many years have human beings been on the planet? Nature is going to punish us? How? Who do you speak for when you say that kind of stuff? You don't think the richest care? They are pretty busy pretending i thinkk but that i agree with.
@@jmed76 Seriously José...nature will not punish anything. If nature punishes then would you even be here? Nature is just nature.
Let's have one in Alaska to save there lakes and next Europe and Canada
This is not possible in Europe. We do this in the Asian part of Russia because there is a lot of open space and almost no one lives there. In European Russia or Ukraine, this is unlikely, in Western Europe there are simply no steppes
@@celovekbudusego1448 we dang well try the most likely places are probs scandinva and european ruddia as you said
Need to get some okapi too
Interesante proyecto.
My question is do we need extinct fauna (like Woolly Mammoth and Steppe Bison)? Can we do the same thing using only the animals that live today? Like horses, Yaks, Yakalo (bison yak hybrid), raindeer, sheep, goat, wolfs tigers and bears?
It can be done with current species. Size isn't really the issue, the issue is population density
@@nicholasoneal1521 well that sounds safer. Brining extinct species back to life is controversial.
We need mammoths to take down the trees, right now the only way is to cut them down our selves.
@@francogiobbimontesanti3826 You could try with Asian Elephants as well. They are closer to mammoths than they are to African Elephants.
@@nutyyyy Asian elephants wouldn’t survive the Arctic, and tho genetically Asian elephants are closer to mammoths, African elephants actually has more of the desired behavior of tipping trees over more often, still user either species wouldn’t work.
Very interesting
Introduce some Asian elephants there the closest relative to mammoths and actually do well in snow.
@Mia Charlotte Noll no be quiet Karen.
Спасибо
Predators like snowleopards, brownbears (subspecies grizzly, kodiak), amur leopards, Artic wolves or other wolves and others?
The predators that will be in the paek are: Eurasian Brown bear,Siberian Tiger,Cave lion(?),Amur leopard,Grey Wolf,Arctic Fox,Fox,Wolverine,Sable
African Lions can survive in the cold
@Shivam Joshi I think on the contrary if you realize the bigger species or subspecies are more suitable for a cold weather since their bodies are bigger because they need more food to tolerate the climate as an example you see the Siberian tiger and the Javan Tiger or the Kodiak bear and the European brown bear. They lose less body heat.
@@roytheredpanda1592 nope they will die in the winter! The only lion which can survive is now extinct which is cave lion
@@roytheredpanda1592 they can but it doenst seem that ethical to bring them in since they already have places they can be introduuced to like a lot of africa
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At the rate they are going, it will take hundreds of years, Siberia is a vast place. Two men, dependent on donations, doesn’t bode well for the success of this project. They would need the backing of millionaires and billionaires to make any appreciable headway!
thank you for the planet. contact sergey zimov
to help them ?
Combine this with the knowledge of Holistic grazing of Alan Savory. Awesome!
So that's what happened to reznov
Next is similar massive meat production from desert lands.
Look into holistic resource management
Save the world....save the world. Are the Arctic wildfires burning there yet?
The woolly mammoth 🦣 will be appearing in Pleistocene Park
1:59 Why is there a number 79 on that horse’s body?
to identify it
pause at 1:49
The human body desiring to mate
then pause at 1:50
man in white, not very happy with what had just taken place.
A mating challenge.
are there wolves or bears in the park
Sergei looks like depressed John Hammond
Which is native to Europe and Asia.
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Uhhh how are they supposed to explain why these animals were not already there? Russia is empty. Why were there no moose?
There were a few animals there, only issue with this example is that they are in very close contact with each other and no intended predators beyond those that sneak in. Mammoths and wooly rhinos were pretty common, along with some large deer ( not moose, but elk and saigas) and horses. Not sure about bison though
@@alexzander7386 woosh?
There were moose but very few in the park I don’t think they could find them
Big herbivores have been wiped out in Siberia with the introduction of humans. When large herbivores died out, there was nobody to eat the new born trees and keep the steppe environment. Thus, an enormous conifer forest of minimum productivity rose where a lush grassland used to be.
This conifer forest offers very little to sustain animal life.
Official site of Pleistocene Park: pleistocenepark.ru/
Interesting project & inspiring people!
I wonder if Siberian tigers can fit in there
Why not heck horse and heck cattle?
Too violent, at least the cattle. The horses were extremely successful in their goal of being a recreation of ancient horses but heck cattle where a pale imitation. They were too small, horns too short and the oryx's fighting spirit was way too exaggerated in the breed, making it an angry mess
@@alexzander7386 but what about heck horses?
Auroch would be further south but still in Siberia I guess tarpans probably didn't exist in the mammoth steppe and there just the same species as the Yakutia horses Equus Ferus
Who here thinks the name of this place inspired Michael Crichton’s book JURASSIC PARK?
Fertilize
Ok but where's the velociraptors at tho?
Doubtful Guest at jurassic world
Extinct,in rock or museums
In your mind
Well there is a program for restoring saurian traits in certain avian species like chickens witch by the 2nd, 3rd and 4th generations could result in 100% genuine velociraptor or deinonychus.
It's yakutian (ya-koosh-an)
I would be impressed if they were able to bring in spotted hyenas and African lions here as well, just like how cave hyenas and cave lions used to roam these lands, but it is probably next to impossible since hyenas and lions of today don’t have warm enough coats.
actually lions seem fine in the snow i think hyenas to
@@mnkash2007 yeah but usually those are in zoos where they can always go back into the indoor enclosure to warm up, in the wild it’d be much harder to warm up
@@nojorooney i think they should bring them when summer starts so when winter comes, they cam adapt with it
Introduce predators when herbivores reach their million number. We're still not there yet. If mammoths could be clone it's possible cave lions too.
Introduce predators when herbivores reach their million number. We're still not there yet. If mammoths could be clone it's possible cave lions too.
And American bison are not native to Russia. Instead they should have used the European bison.
They tried, the Wisents failed to acclimate. North American Bison are more adapted to colder climates
@@nicholasoneal1521 why?
@@pedrogabrielduarte4544 Vlad explained it properly for you. European Bison are not adapted to the Siberian climate, and the American is also a close ancestor of Steppe Bison
@@ousamadearudesuwa but american bisons in europe?:strange maybe one day they will became a invasive species
@Vlad Kovtun wait? you said "most" of the bison?
put some mammoths in there
They will. First, the existing herbivores must multiply. Only when that's done will the mega herbivores return.
Or American bison.
you need to let Asian elephants roam free in plasticine park
Too cold
Unless there are no domestic animals in this.
Except horses
@@pedrogabrielduarte4544 yakutian horse is actually not domesticated, surprise!
Woody Harrelson
who’s here cuz of ws
wsc
Shot-out to r/megafaunarewilding
This is supposed to be a nature reserve right? Then why are there domestic horse, sheep, and goat? They’re not wild.
They are supposed to fill in for their extinct relatives who were wild. And tho they're domesticated, this project is putting them back in the wild
Its not its supposed to give the same effect as large herds of herbivores grazing as they would have before all the animals there got wiped out by complete coincidence when humans arrived.
YAKUTIA HORSE ARE NOT DOMESTICATED.
Bad idea.
This is an awesome idea!
James Smilus it’s a waste of time. Besides climate change is not happening, scientist have been lying all along.
Elline Nega, If we don’t do something right now. We could all perish in about 100 years.
You clearly don’t understand me as we are of different “spiritual races”.
@@jamessmilus321 I wouldn't say perish, but human civilization will definitely not be as suitable as we have right now.