Inside “Native”: The Bison Renaissance Across North America
Go behind the scenes of Native: The Prodigies of an Icon as the crew travels from the United States into Canada to document the modern revival of the American bison and the working lands that sustain them. Ranchers, scientists, and conservation leaders explain why North American grasslands—among the world’s most endangered ecosystems—need real market value for sunlight captured as forage and protein, and why large mammals require large, functioning landscapes. From a species once reduced to a few hundred animals to a herd now exceeding half a million, this series chronicles a rare conservation success and the stewardship it demands. Catch ongoing behind-the-scenes travel updates on Yanasa TV.
- 00:00 — The documentary creators highlight why conserving endangered grasslands matters. 🌳
- 01:38 — Stories of modern-day ranching and conservation of the American bison. 🌎
- 01:52 — The deep, cross-cultural human–bison relationship explored with experts. 🌟
- 03:08 — From a few hundred to ~500,000 bison: a rare conservation success.
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You don’t understand how big your documentary is your documentary changes everything across an entire nation. There’s nothing more real than growing up and on a ranch you know you get to see the life. If um if this place could talk the history that would have would would probably be really really interesting. We are here doing our business on the land for some time and I think we we have an obligation to manage it in the best possible interest of any future animals humans and plants to come the North American grasslands are one of the most endangered ecological systems in the world. A lot of people don’t know that if you want to conserve something you have to put a value on it. Nobody will pay for sunlight what we’re doing is we’re converting that sunlight into a plant and we’re offering a pound of protein for sale if there’s no room left in the world for large assemblages of large body siiz. Critters at large landscape scales then we’re facing a world that’s going to be fundamentally different than the one we have we B benefit from join us behind the scenes as we travel across North America from the United States up through Canada.
01:38 Filming native the prodigies of an icon. A documentary about North America’s largest mammal the American Bison. We started this project to share the stories of modern-day ranching and conservation.
01:52 We had no idea the gravity of just how much could be learned. He there’s an ancestral relationship certainly with with bison and people for all cultures. Bison have been part of man. They don’t realize that relationship and how great it is through these Adventures. You can explore the modern world of Bison from national parks to private ranches and even sitd. Downs with different scientists authors and other Scholars. That’s uh that’s that’s intriguing and it tells it tells a really good story probably because we’re unique subset of Ranchers.
03:08 You know there is only a few hundred left and now we got half a million animals. It’s I think it’s one of the most beautiful success. Stories for an endangered species can’t say much more than that. It’s magic catch up on previous behind the-scenes. Adventures on yanasa TV and stay tuned for at least three new travel. Adventures a week as we head into the end of the year way. Pain he.
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