The article Unnatural Kingdom by Daniel Duane presents two ways of preserving animal populations through new types of technology. The two types of preservation are the relocation of animals and the prevention of predation of the endangered population. These methods help to protect and monitor these endangered animal populations while keeping them as relatively wild and in their natural habitat as possible.
Scientists monitor the predation habits of the endangered population. If this population is being preyed on too frequently, scientists and hunters will intervene and take out the predators. Animal transportation is another method while trying to protect a population. The animal transportation method takes animals from one area of the endangered population and moves them to an area where there is a less dense population. The article describes how pregnant female sheep are captured, bagged and dangled by helicopter to their new location.
In my opinion, animal relocation is the better method. Although this method separates animal families and drops animals in new locations to have offspring, it is more humane than predation prevention. The predation prevention method is killing other animals in order to save another, which doesn't make sense. I personally do not like either method and should let things happen on their own.
Restored populations of big horned sheep will have less genetic diversity than they did 200 years ago due to the near extinction. The species was brought back from a select few sheep with the help of scientists leaving a very shallow.
Although the sheep are not domesticated, I would say that these animals no longer can be considered wild animals. They are under nearly constant surveillance and could possibly extinct now if not for human intervention.
