Connie Barlow, Rewilding Institute supporter, was interviewed recently at the University of Florida during a Deep Ecology public series.
"Rewilding Megafauna: Lions and Camels in North America?" can be found here.
Learn about the call for the return of the "American cheetah, the American camel, the American plains lion, the American mastodons and mammoths, and other species by using proxies from the Old World to restart their evolution in the New, and to restore their vital roles as shapers of ecological landscapes."
Connie does presentations on North American Rewilding and her details can be found here.
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THe camel was never native to North America - it was an introduced species. What would be the point of bringing them back to this country again? As far as I can tell the only real gain might be to save them from extinction in their native lands. However, since America is on the fast track to extincting itself we would probably not do the camel much good.
Well, we've got to do something. Too often these days I'm shrugging in resignation. That't not good, especially for my soul.
"How marvelous it must be to live in a country that still has beavers! We lost ours about 400 years ago."
C.S. Lewis
In fact, camels WERE native to North America - Camelops hesternus, which may not have had a hump and was closely related to the South American llama, roamed the continent until about 10,000 years ago, when the mammoths, mastodons, etc. went extinct.
I think that this is a good idea and the most important is that we have evidence that the Camels and their relatives originated here, in the New World. This is demonstrated thanks to the fossil record. And the propose of the Pleistocene Rewilding Proyect is well supported. I'm agree with the Camel Reintroduction
camel's lived in new mexico. we are finding peterfied teeth and peterfied poop from the prestoric camels