‘Incredible’ news for bears and wild horses as US shifts preservation plans
by Richard Luscombe from Environment | The Guardian on (#6MF1Q)
National Park Service will reintroduce bears to Washington's North Cascades and won't remove horses from North Dakota park
Wildlife advocates are celebrating incredible" news for the preservation of threatened bears, and a herd of historically significant wild horses, in separate north-western and upper midwestern national parks.
In North Dakota, the National Parks Service (NPS) has dropped a plan that would have seen about 200 wild horses, descended from those belonging to Native American tribes who fought the 1876 Great Sioux war, rounded up and removed from Theodore Roosevelt national park.
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