Adrián Domí­nguez

Photographer
    
Restoring European Bison
Location: Parque Regional de la Sierra de Gredos, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Biography: Adrián Domínguez  has a long career on editorial photography, for two decades, he has portrayed a large variety of personalities and tackled reports on contemporary issues for international publishers such as Condé Nast... MORE
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Restoring European Bison
Copyright Adrián Domínguez 2024
Date of Work Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Updated Jun 2019
Topics Activism, Agriculture, Animals, Climate Change, Conservation, Documentary, Editorial, Environment, Forest, Photography, Politics, Science, Wildlife

The struggle to rescue European bison (Bison bonasus) from extinction began about 80 years ago, after World War. Although the species became extinct in the wild, a few specimens remained in some European zoos. 

The first reintroduction of this species to forest ecosystems began in BiaÅ‚owieża, in 1952: International Bison Defense Company (CIDB) has managed to reintroduce 12 specimens in the primeval forest. Now, it is estimated a world population of 6,000 specimens (EBPB 2016), therefore, these are in danger of total extinction; In addition, its low genetic diversity, the result of consanguinity, makes these animals especially vulnerable. 

In 1966 the UN included the European bison in its <<list of protected animals>>. Today, only 2,500 Bonasus live in large areas managed as controlled-freedom, the rest are in zoos or small centers.


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