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American Chestnut Trees Return to Bronx Zoo After a Century

Original: American Chestnut Trees, Functionally Extinct in the Wild, Return to the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo for the First Time in More Than a Century

American chestnut trees, once wiped out by blight and now functionally extinct in the wild, have been planted at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo for the first time in more than a century. The return marks a symbolic milestone in long-running efforts to restore the species, which dominated eastern US forests before a fungal blight devastated billions of trees in the early 1900s. Conservationists hope renewed plantings will support breeding programs working toward blight-resistant chestnuts.

Why now: The restoration of an iconic species once thought lost resonates with public interest in conservation and rewilding success stories.

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American Chestnut Trees, Functionally Extinct in the Wild, Return to the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo for the First Time in More Than a Century · WCS Newsroom

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