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The unconventional Russian geophysicist Sergei Zimov, his son Nikita and an ambitious project to restore an ecosystem that disappeared 10,000 years ago with the end of the Ice Age. Two men in one of the least hospitable places in the north gather vast herds of cattle and release them into the “Pleistocene Park” in the Siberian wilderness. Everything is done low-cost and without official permits or outside help. According to them, rebuilding the Ice Age ecosystem might be the way to prevent the worst-case climate scenario. Will they be able to build the Serengeti of the north before the permafrost melts? (Academia Film Olomouc)
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Pleistocene Park provides a behind-the-scenes look at a truly bold and daring project with an uncertain course and an even more uncertain outcome. The rescue of the permafrost according to the ambitious vision of Sergei and Nikita Zimov looks like a well-thought-out, but at the same time very foolish idea. But it was interesting to see the enormous determination of both men (although Sergei is a really peculiar character), with obstacles constantly getting in their way. The documentary exuded a strong regional colour and was quite funny in places.
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