karun was once much greener and home to millions of antelope and buffalo their hooves loose in the topsoil while their droppings fertilized it. in a bid to recreate the great migrations of the past the project employs shepherds to lead livestock over the plains. the project leader he's confident that herders can help revive the whole region. as we fundamentally believe that this method of farming give space for wildlife to co-exist with production i could call tree so that's really simple vision is to find a make an ism by which we can. foster biodiversity on production farms. the thousands of kilometers of fences needed for intensive livestock of the culture one of the main reasons why wildlife has disappeared. fences prevent the animals from roaming free as they search for grazing land and water. they often end up tangled in barbed wire. in order to study the effects of the fenceless farming method on the environment ecologist so monitoring the project. over the past 2 years ahead researcher janine mcmanus and a group of students have recorded the number of plant species in selected stud