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>> where the warming is so extreme that its hard for us to really fathom. >> reporter: unless this works. zimoff calls it his pleistocene park. an idea so simple it sounds absurd. why not go back in time and recreate the very conditions that existed in the colder days of the woolly mammoth. thats right. turn this into the second ice age. so zimoff bought some land, shipped in herds of animals, horses, canadian bison and reindeer. with a four ton truck like a mammoth he knocked down trees that ab...

Populations are stabilizing? >> because of really good enforcement and patrols in these areas. >> reporter: the thai government has trained 190 park rangers who work in 20 separate patrol teams, using g.p.s. and tracking devices to try to prevent poaching. >> this is fabulous. >> reporter: the video shows not just tigers, but a clouded leopard, this jungle pig nursing her babies and other animals thought to have disappeared from this area. with a mere 3,200 tigers left in the wild worldwide, the...

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Plains and gathered the few remnants of what was left, about 10 to 15 bison and grew them into the herds that today have left to the bisons comeback. >> they protected them for their own profit. >> they found a way to make the bison pay. the bison market for them was meat. they sold bison to circuses, to zoos and to public preserves. >> john: and before that when there were 30 million bison. at first there werent enough indians who killed them they were doing okay. and the white settlers couldnt...

>> john: and why do you know about this? you are with perc. >> property and environment research center. >> based in bozman mandatory evacuation? >> we believe ownership provides the best method for conservation. >> there are buffalo in some state park and one has roundup. >> and they are treating like bison like private ranchers are treating the bison. once-a-year for 45 years they have this huge roundup where they bring in their 1500 bison and tourists come from all over the world, pay money t...

Afterwards. the point is the park is making money from the tourism of we son and then about a month later they auction off a portion of that bison to private ranchers and they are also making money that way. all that money goes back into custer state park to pay for operation of the park. the bison are paying their own way in the case of custer. >> john: more benefit from profit. thank you, brian yablonski. coming up, how government made the indians poor and how private property made america ric...

And move inside corrals and we all go eat bison burgers afterwards. the point is the park is making money from the tourism of we son and then about a month later they auction off a portion of that bison to private ranchers and they are also making money that way. all that money goes back into custer state park to pay for operation of the park. the bison are paying their own way in the case of custer. >> john: more benefit from profit. thank you, brian yablonski. coming up, how government made th...

>> john: look be at those buffalo roam. bison are a great example of tragedy to come. 30 million of them he once roamed in america. with you because no one owned them or rather everyone owned them, indians and the white settlers kept hunting them until they were nearly extinct. the herd went from 30 million to 1,000. they made a comeback all because now people own them. brie season here to help explain what happened. what happened? >> property rights were established over the few remaining bison...

Bison. what about the elephants in africa? >> some of the same concepts have been used to save elephants in zimbabwe. they provided ownership interest to villagers in zimbabwe and that is helping to save them. prior to that you had communal lands in zimbabwe. >> and the government saying dont kill the elephants. >> the villagers were growing crops and put livestock on the lands and the elephants were destroying the crops and other wildlife was running off their livestock. live. >> john: they wou...