Indigenous community brings back majestic animal once nearly driven to extinction in stunning land project: 'It's a very beneficial thing'

Indigenous community brings back majestic animal once nearly driven to extinction in stunning land project: 'It's a very beneficial thing'

Charlie Carpenter, an Afro-Indigenous and Latino conservationist, is helping lead a movement to reintroduce one of North America's most iconic animals to the lands it once roamed freely — the buffalo. Carpenter is the braided science program manager at Indigenous Led, an organization working to elevate Indigenous-led conservation by weaving traditional ecological knowledge with Western science. At the heart of this work is a mission to heal land…