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Global Voices of Science

An essay series celebrating the 125th anniversary of Science Magazine

May Essay

Pleistocene Park: Return of the Mammoth's Ecosystem

Sergey A. Zimov, Northeast Science Station

Sergey A. Zimov, author of this month's essay, is the director of the Northeast Science Station in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Russia. In "Pleistocene Park" he hopes to reconstitute the long-gone ecosystem of the Pleistocene epoch that supported vast populations of large animals including mammoths, horses, wolves, and even tigers. His bold visions of controlling and restoring ecosystems have earned him coverage in books, documentaries and other media.

"Pleistocene Park directly tests the role of large herbivores in creating and maintaining grassland ecosystems..."

Read the full essay by Sergey A. Zimov

Interactive Feature

Plestocene Park

Pleistocene Park

As Dr. Zimov discusses in his essay, restoring the mammoth ecosystem could test the hypothesis that hunting, not climate change, wiped out the animals that once thrived in northern Siberia. This online slide show highlights his efforts to reconstitute this long-gone ecosystem in Pleistocene Park.

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