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Bialowieza Safari

editor — Fri, 19 May 2017 17:17:24 +0000

We had stopped in a spot where we could see some forest edge after sunset but before the evening’s light had faded. And there we waited, constantly scanning from side to side. A scatter of moving lumps in the short-cropped meadows turned out to be hares. A few deer came into sight at the forest’s edge, obviously coming out for some rather different night-time grazing. The only other wildlife we could spot in the gathering gloom – more correctly they spotted us – were mosquitoes and some other undetermined biting insects. We waited, but no bison appeared. By now the

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Wildlife Travel To Bialowieza

editor — Fri, 19 May 2017 17:08:10 +0000

A little under a century ago, it would not have been possible to find any bison in this huge forest; they had all been shot. European Bison had been driven to extinction in the wild. Historically, their range extended over most of lowland Europe from the French Massif Central as far east as western and southern Russia, maybe further east still. But that range decreased as human populations expanded, felling forests as they went and farming larger and larger areas of land, confining bison to what forests remained and to more remote regions of Eastern Europe. By the 8th century

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