Why should I care about The American Bison?

You should care about The American Bison because there is fewer then 30,000 left. Fewer then 5,000 are free ranging and disease free and 90% are privately owned. The main threats from people in the past were unrestricted hunting and in the present is habitat destruction. To farm American Bison may be the only way they will be able to survive in the future. In the early 20^th century, the American Bison was poised to follow the mammoth and the woolly rhinoceros into extinction.