Only about 20000. 00 are pure american bison. That genetic line dates back to 913 when 14 bison from the bronx zoo were trucked to Wind Cave National park in south dakota at the behest of teddy roosevelt. So when it was time to bring bison to choose they looked for a posse with the wind lineage. We went to broken grassland another Nature Conservancy preserve in northwestern iowa in october of 24 team and brought back 20 animals with us we were essentially separated off the animals that we were going to bring back to illinois make sure that they had a clean bill of health. 7 of the females we strapped g. P. S. Collars onto so that we can get near real time moving. Some of the animals tracking those movements with the g. P. S. Collars is Julian Brockman a bison researcher at Southern Illinois university. What kind of data are you receiving so were getting Location Information a g. P. S. Point on a map every hour 24 hours a day so can you show me what youve been seeing sure these are the
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Brett brennan thanks very much indeed great to get your thoughts there thanks for joining us there live from West Virginia to be with here. The iraqi Prime Minister is calling for calm after 3 days of government process and left at least 31 people dead 11 alone were killed on thursday as a day has asked for says says to raise their demands with his office so a resolution can be reached is also crack down on corruption sacking over a 1000 Government Employees well theres widespread anger against a lack of jobs per Public Services in iraq imran khan has the latest from baghdad. They defied the curfew imposed by iraqs Security Forces. And for not following soldiers orders bullets were fired at the. Anti government demonstrations in the capital baghdad for the past 3 days have also spread to other cities such as bus are necessary at an m r a as the violence escalated Security Forces blocked major roads and the internet is also blocked in most parts to sever social media i protest as are de
Connections the upper middle classes those whove got good educations are more isolated from that but i think it does permeate all of society and people know youre just one connection away or youre already losing power from you or at least your kids being able to get jobs. That said no ones happy with what the mahdi the Prime Minister is putting out there i think his speech was a tone deaf and and didnt give very much but its not clear that the people would have reacted any better had he proposed the real reforms the cutting of the club like sector or the real business warms the opening of the oil sector that would be needed to really generate the private sector jobs that iraq so desperately need so do you think that there is the energy there among these protesters to keep Going Forward with this. That there is certainly the appearance of that and my reading of the Prime Ministers speech is that he did more harm than good probably added fuel to the fire and im seeing on on social media
Every 2 months monday night saina travels around 6000 kilometers from her native switzerland to the democratic republic of congo in this politically unstable country she can only move around under the protection of the armed rangers. Marlena is an internationally source after specialist in man trailing which means she trains dogs specifically to track people down. A service are required in particular in the northeast of congo in the National Park where ruthless brutal poaching is in danger and the animal population. The park director wants to combat the poaching and asked marlena who is a vet for her help 80 years ago since then shes been in charge of developing a special sniffer dog unit for this purpose. Of the cold i didnt know anything about congo only as much as the next person i just knew that it was somewhere in the middle of africa and there was a conflict there when i got there 1st email and phone call i thought im not sending any dogs down there is specially not my favorite b