The Nature Conservancy is returning bison to Indiana to reestablish the prairie.
Before prairie was the general ecosystem in Indiana, buy in the last 200 years all of it has been knocked out for agriculture.
Now, the ancient and original prairies are almost disappeared.
The Nature Conservancy has been working to transform 7000 acres into divergent prairies for the previous 20 years.
There are nearly 750 sorts of plants and 250 sorts of butterflies on the recently renewed block of prairie, called the Kankakee Sands Nature Preserve.
Most of the little insect and plats, that are native could find their way independently, but bisons required some help.
In 2016 October, the Nature Conservancy transported 23 bisons onto the preserve from South Dakota.
“They were brought and after 5 hours, they feel as if they were native.”
The next year ten calves were born and ten were transferred from South Dakota making 43 bison in Indiana.
They are the initial thoroughbred bison in the refined in 200 years.
These animals are so important for the grasslands, as the grasslands for bisons.
And also they restrain tree saplings and didn’t allow the prairie to become a forest, and also cut channels in the dirt with their hooves, that help corn diffusion and planting.
“It’s about comforting the cooperation between plants and animals for ecosystem.”
Once, 60 million bisons liberated in the USA. And their population declined to less than 1000 by 1889, and now increased for about half a million.