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A bison and calf in Yellowstone National Park.
Bison could make a big comeback all across North America over the next 100 years, a conservation group said this week.
Bison once numbered in the tens of millions across the continent, but these icons of the American West were wiped out by commercial hunting and habitat loss.
By 1889, fewer than 1,100 individuals remained.
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1n 1905, the American Bison Society formed at the current Bronx Zoo headquarters of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and began efforts to repopulate reserves on the Great Plains with animals from the zoo's herd and other sources.
Of the estimated 500,000 bison that exist today, only 20,000 are considered wild; the rest live on private ranches.
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