1. Historical Baseline
Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent
The aurochs' last bellow echoed through Poland's Jaktorów Forest in 1627, marking Europe's first recorded megafaunal extinction.¹ This wild ancestor of cattle, standing two meters at the shoulder and weighing 1,000 kilograms, had shaped European landscapes for 250,000 years. Its passing symbolized a continent transforming from wilderness to garden—a process already millennia advanced by 1750.
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1. Historical Baseline
Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent
The aurochs' last bellow echoed through Poland's Jaktorów Forest in 1627, marking Europe's first recorded megafaunal extinction.¹ This wild...
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