ELK ISLAND NATIONAL PARK — Next month, 30 young bison will catch a 10-hour flight from mild Alberta to roam one of the coldest corners of the planet. As part of a conservation partnership with Russia, the animals will be flown to the Republic of Sakha, a huge, mountainous swath of Siberian land where the Communist party used to exile its opponents and temperatures can plummet to -60 C. It is the second stage of the project, after 30 wood bison were sent to Sakha in 2006 to reproduce and replace Russia’s indigenous bison, which have been extinct for decades.
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