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humanimalia-10078	Chrulew, Matthew	Reversing Extinction: Restoration and Resurrection in the Pleistocene Rewilding Projects	2011	24	.pdf	application/pdf	8542	444	45	Their anthropogenic Matthew Chrulew — Reversing Extinction: Restoration and Resurrection in the Pleistocene Rewilding Projects 9 extinction as the result of overhunting by the Clovis culture has left a glaringly empty environmental niche, unfilled for millennia and awaiting replenishment.6 A prominent commentary piece in Nature (followed by another in American Naturalist) by a number of scientists (including Martin, Dave Foreman, and Michael Soulé) has put this idea square on the agenda of conservation biology: “we advocate Pleistocene rewilding — reinstituting ecological and evolutionary processes that were transformed or eliminated by megafaunal extinctions — as a conservation priority in North America” (Donlan et al., “Pleistocene Rewilding” 661; Donlan et al., “Re-Wilding” 913). Such Pleistocene rewilding projects represent a new modality in the process of civilizing nature that defines the history of wilderness areas, challenging many long-held preservationist assumptions.	cache/humanimalia-10078.pdf	txt/humanimalia-10078.txt