Abstract
Recovery targets fall short of culturally meaningful abundance.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 694-696 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Science |
| Volume | 380 |
| Issue number | 6646 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 19 2023 |
Funding
Recently, an inspiring example of Indigenous leadership in plains bison restoration began unfolding. On 23 September 2014, 13 First Nations and Native American tribes signed the first intertribal treaty in 150 years, the Buffalo Treaty, which focused on the ecological and cultural recovery of plains bison (6). Supported in part by the Buffalo Treaty, Banff National Park, Canada, initiated a plains bison restoration program in 2017. The long-term reintroduction goal in Banff is to include co-management of a culturally meaningful bison harvest with Buffalo Treaty signatories. The contemporary successes of bison restoration have increased the likelihood of bison recovery under MVP criteria. But bison recovery will remain incomplete until peoples’ cultural connection with bison—including, perhaps,