The Wisent was persecuted by hunting and suffered
with the advance of agriculture and in 1927 the species
became extinct in the wild.
Efforts to restore this species to the wild began
in 1948 with the establishment of the Bison Breeding
Center. Reintroductions of captive-bred individuals
began in the 1950s and the herds have grown successfully;
reintroductions to date have occurred in Belarus,
Poland, Russia and Ukraine.
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