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Both males and females have heavy, ridged horns that grow straight out from the head or curve downward and then up. The horns are formidable weapons against predators and are used when jostling for space within the herd; males use the horns in fights for dominance. Outside national parks, these giants are considered crop pests and are seen as dangerous animals due to their size, aggressive nature, and formidable horns.
In East Africa, they are known to break fences, raid cultivated crops, and they may even spread bovine diseases to livestock. In the past, they suffered their most dramatic population decline during the great rinderpest epidemic of the s. This also coupled with pleuro-pneumonia and caused mortalities as high as 95 percent among livestock and wild buffalo. Their habitat is threatened by fragmentation, which is caused when land is divided by unsustainable development.
African Wildlife Foundation works with government entities to help plan and propose alternative solutions to habitat fragmentation by providing its scientists as resources to assist in proper planning to ensure a balance between growth and modernization and wildlife conservation. We work with communities to help meet their agricultural needs through proper planning and techniques for sustainable agricultural growth.
By providing these resources, AWF is able to minimize land used for agriculture, thereby minimizing impact on local wildlife, while helping to minimize food security and income for people. They can live in herds of a few hundred but have been known to congregate in thousands in the Serengeti during the rainy season. Congregating in large herds is one of their many anti-predator adaptations. Large herds decrease the possibility of any individual being singled out by lions.
The females and their offspring make up the bulk of the herd. Males may spend much of their time in bachelor groups. These groups are of two types, those that contain males from 4 to 7 years old and those that have males 12 years and older.
The older bulls often prefer to be on their own. Summer temperatures in Greater Yellowstone have gotten hotter by an even larger margin, with the summers of the past decade 2. Yellowstone National Park has documented that precipitation has been declining as temperatures have been increasing Yellowstone Center for Resources, Thus as the climate dries, more bison will move out of the park, and as they leave the park, they will be hazed and killed.
We are the last line of defense for these animals. Things grow worse for them each year. You found this page, and you just learned of the dangers facing wild buffalo. Will you help protect the buffalo? Will you make a donation today? Now that your questions about wild bison are answered, will you join the fight to defend them? BFC's goal is to stop the slaughter and harassment of Yellowstone's wild buffalo herds, protect the natural habitat of wild free-roaming buffalo and native wildlife, and to work with people of all Nations to honor the sacredness of wild buffalo.
Home FAQ Are wild bison in danger of extinction? Are wild bison in danger of extinction? Broadly speaking: Why and how is the survival of wild buffalo endangered? Existing systems are failing the last remaining buffalo. What makes Yellowstone bison unique? What makes Yellowstone bison significant? What makes Yellowstone bison discrete? What threatens the habitat of Yellowstone bison?
Why are Yellowstone bison are being shot, harassed, and slaughtered? Explore other Problems Buffalo Face. What livestock diseases threaten Yellowstone bison? What other natural or manmade factors threaten the existence of Yellowstone bison?
ABOUT US BFC's goal is to stop the slaughter and harassment of Yellowstone's wild buffalo herds, protect the natural habitat of wild free-roaming buffalo and native wildlife, and to work with people of all Nations to honor the sacredness of wild buffalo. All rights reserved. Today buffalo herds in the US number about 75, animals, with 60, on private lands and the remainder on federal and state lands.
The largest "wild" herd strong -- is found in Yellowstone National Park. Today Native Americans suffer from the symptoms of this cultural destruction -- alcoholism, illness, broken homes, depression, suicide and pockets of poverty far worse than any in urban ghettos.
Reestablishing the Great Plains buffalo herds would not only be a dramatic and inspirational step toward restoring the original ecology of one of the nation's degraded bioregions, it would also return to Native Americans a vital natural resource that could make them self-supporting while revitalizing their religion and culture.
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