A Russian scientist and his son are trying to recreate a long-lost ecosystem in the Siberian Arctic that'll be a refuge for species that survived the last Ice Age – and will allow bringing others back from extinction, The Atlantic reports.
At the approximately 40,000-acre Pleistocene Park, Sergey Zimov and his son, Nikita, plan to populate the project with animals like bison, musk oxen and even lab-grown woolly mammoths, the magazine reported.
According to the magazine, the goal of the experiment is to slow the thawing of the permafrost, the carbon-filed frozen soil covering much of the Arctic– and stave off the release of massive amounts of carbon that would occur if the frozen solid melted, the Atlantic reported.
The scientists say bringing back the wooly mammoth steppe ecosystem – where the permafrost stored carbon, and grasses reflected sunlight — can guard against global warming.
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