Could the wolf return to Japan? With Ryo Sakurai

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"While people consider deer, wild boars, macaque as crop raiding pests, wolves were considered as good animals, benign animals, because they were considered to protect agricultural fields from such crop raiding pests. In fact, in many parts of Japan wolves were worshipped as gods." Japan's last wolves disappeared more than a century ago, and today its forests are overrun with deer. Might the wolf one day return? In this episode of Rewilding the World Ben Goldsmith speaks to Ryo Sakurai,...