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Rewilding, Ethnic Cleansing, and the Heck Cattle
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The Heck brothers attempted to rewild a landscape and populate it with a resurrected breed of cattle as part of their goal to create a preserve for an idealized Germanic landscape, which required ethnic cleansing as a means to achieve ecological restoration. Their project eventually failed, but the resulting breed of cattle, called the Heck cattle, remains today.

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The rewilding movement has its origins in Nazi Germany's attempt to create a pure Aryan race by "rewilding" the landscape with a resurrected species of cattle, which ultimately failed but led to the development of the Heck breed of cattle.
34:11 - 38:04 (03:53)
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Nazi Germany
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The rewilding movement has its origins in Nazi Germany's attempt to create a pure Aryan race by "rewilding" the landscape with a resurrected species of cattle, which ultimately failed but led to the development of the Heck breed of cattle.

Chapter
Rewilding, Ethnic Cleansing, and the Heck Cattle
Episode
104: Resurrection. Pleistocene Park & Beyond.
Podcast
National Park After Dark
The speaker is not a big fan of Lord of the Rings and does not remember much from the movies, including the orcs.
38:04 - 38:15 (00:10)
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Lord of The Rings
Summary

The speaker is not a big fan of Lord of the Rings and does not remember much from the movies, including the orcs.

Chapter
Rewilding, Ethnic Cleansing, and the Heck Cattle
Episode
104: Resurrection. Pleistocene Park & Beyond.
Podcast
National Park After Dark