cientists are getting very creative with how they can save endangered species now thanks to advances in technology. Like with the Sierra Bighorns. The Sierra Bighorns were prayed on by Lions and at one point their population decreased to around just 100. Started in the early 2000s, people would fire net guns from helicopters to capture Bighorns fitted with collars with GPS and VHF radio transmitters. And then professional hunters tracked and darted every lion in the area to outfit them with collars that carried VHF radio transmitters. After that, Biologists at computer monitors to watch the Bighorn’s movements. So every time a lion kills multiple bighorns in a short period of time, the hunters use VHF radio waves and specially bred Lion hounds to find and kill it. Or you can do something like the Italian farmers who had bears eating their chickens and tearing up their commercial beehives. They put collars on the bears and when they came close to a sensor, hidden guns sprayed them and bright lights and loud sirens blared and scared them away.
It’s great that they’re trying to bring back the Sierra Bighorns but it’s going to be a while before they’re totally back to normal. Every species should have some differences between them and the Sierra Bighorns aren’t going to be very diverse. It’s going to be growing from such a small population so the gene pool will also be small. But as the population grows so will the gene pool.
