Nature
At one time, more than 60 million bison roamed the continent, but during the 1800s they were hunted nearly to extinction, and by 1889 fewer than 1,000 survived. In 1899, the New York Zoological Society purchased seven bison from private owners and began a successful breeding program at its Bronx Zoo. That organization later became the Wildlife Conservation Society and still raises bison in the Bronx today. The Bronx Zoo breeding program made it possible to send bison back to the Plains to help restock depleted wild populations, and many of the bison in the West today are descended from that small original herd.
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