Explore Białowieża Forest, one of the last remaining primeval forests in Europe and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Straddling ...

Non-profit conservationist group Rewilding Europe has announced the release of eight European bison at the Herdade do Vale Feitoso Estate in the Castelo Branco District of eastern Portugal. The Polish ...

The European bison has always been a bit of an enigma. Smaller and more svelte than their North American cousins, their ancestry is a bit of a quandary as they seem to suddenly appear in the fossil ...

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A reproduction of a painting at the the Pergouset cave in ArdeÌ che, France, probably representing an ancestor of modern European bison that was created by the hybridization of cows and steppe bison.

1. Where populations are confined to fragmented, human-dominated landscapes, preventing declines and extirpations will often rely on metapopulation management. Spatially-explicit population viability ...

A European bison who accidentally wandered over the border into Germany last week was greeted with a bullet, angering conservationists who work to protect the rare species. The largest land mammal in ...

For the first time, a UAB research team in collaboration with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) analyses the feeding habits of European bison herds in Mediterranean forests The European ...

The wisent has been brought to the country by a famous prince. Dec. 30, 2012— -- For the first time since the 18th century, the European bison is returning to Germany to live in the wild. The ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Should it be the late Pope John Paul II or Solidarity trade union leader Lech Walesa? Or how about a bison or a bottle of vodka, or maybe all of the above? The Polish government's ...

For a decade, people who study Europe's bison population have been baffled by a genetic mystery. The animals, which are a protected species, seemed to have appeared out of thin air about 11,000 years ...