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world is facing a biodiversity crisis, with habitats being d and species disappearing at a rate not seen since the last mass extinction. This week, nature has a common article from a group who are trying to reverse this trend in argentina. They are part of fundacion re wilding argentina, which is, as its name suggests, an organization that aims to restore ego systems to their wild state, driven, in their case, by reintroducing species that have been lost, while the re rduction of species in order to re wild habitats can be controversial. It has been very popular around the world, from the reintroduction of wolves to yellowstone national park in the us, to beavers into parts of the u. K. Fundacion rewilding argentina want to do more than introduce one species. In their work, they've been re introducing multiple species to a series of protected areas around the country in the hopes that this might kick start a whole eco system restor on even in heavily depleted areas. I called up ameliano donadio, one of the comments authors, who told me about one of the regions they're working in, the ibera wetlands in northeast argentina. The

bera is one point four million hector landscape that is located in one province. This is a huge complex of ponds and grass lands and mall patches of forest. And over more than a hundred years, it's been destroyed by humans. At the beginning, it was hunting, and then rice plantations, and then pine plantations came. So that basically degraded most of the system. And what it did happen is that every single large verte rate, from deer

tgaguars, disappeared.