“This remarkable documentary is very much about how this tremendously ambitious idea collides with the messy, muddy, buggy reality of dredging up various bands of muskoxen, reindeer, wild horse, yak, moose and bison and delivering these animals to a small patch of land in one of the remotest corners of one of the most remote regions on Earth...The themes are serious, the warnings dire, the science sound - but the story of the Zimovs' dogged Quixotic pursuit to save the world via mass ecological intervention is also inspiring and oddly hopeful.”
—Eliezer Gurarie, Professor of Environmental Biology, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
“Beautifully filmed and conceived...Based on a long-term and personal engagement with the Zimov family, Luke Griswold-Tergis tells a compelling story, part science documentary, part tragicomedy of errors, of one family living in the remote Arctic on a grand quest to save humanity from impending climate catastrophe. Pleistocene Park will be an excellent addition to the classroom in environmental science, anthropology, and Russian and Eurasian Studies."
—Anya Bernstein, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
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