{"id":78,"date":"2023-06-27T21:15:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T21:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polanco420.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2023-06-27T21:15:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T21:15:50","slug":"the-american-bison-reconquers-mexico-to-fight-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polanco420.com\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"The American bison reconquers Mexico to fight climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The largest terrestrial mammal in America contributes to the regulation of the grasslands of the El Carmen reserve (Coahuila), which accumulate large amounts of carbon<\/h3>\n

Dozens of American bison graze in the wide open fields of El Carmen (Coahuila), a reserve of 140,000 hectares, almost the same size as Mexico City. The northern plains of the country had forgotten the passage of the mammal, eradicated 100 years ago after decades of indiscriminate hunting and destruction of its habitat. In 2021, and following an initiative led by the Mexican cement company Cemex, the bison returned to roam the grasslands, a soil that accumulates large amounts of carbon, making it key to the fight against climate change. 19 bison arrived at the reserve, and there are already more than 90 in the place. The daily life of the mammal makes it a fundamental actor to regenerate the grass vegetation and to maintain hundreds of species that live with it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEvenly pruning the grasses [produced by bison while eating] helps increase the diversity of plants on the land. It also takes care of the regeneration of ecosystems, by taking the seeds from one place to another in its digestive system and defecating them,\u201d explains Rurik List, an Environmental Sciences researcher at the Universidad Aut\u00f3noma Metropolitana (UAM). The bison is a sober animal, which inadvertently encourages other species to survive in the spaces it inhabits. With its 800 kilograms of weight, it flattens the grass in its wake, an alteration that helps rodents like the prairie dog, which need short grass to watch out for predators.<\/p>\n

Cemex carries out different conservation initiatives to try to offset the impact of its operations. The company has more than 250 active quarries around the world, and tries to minimize its footprint from various perspectives: rehabilitating the places that were exploited; preparing them before starting work to protect their biodiversity, and promoting the care of spaces such as the El Carmen reserve, where they arrived 22 years ago. \u201cSince the beginning of the reserve, a series of studies were carried out to determine what was most appropriate. An inventory of flora and fauna was carried out to determine which were the conservation objects to which we had to give retention. And an analysis was made to see the status of the habitat,\u201d says Alejandro Espinosa, director of the El Carmen reserve.<\/p>\n

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