Indigenous-led recovery efforts by West Moberly First Nations and Saulteau First Nations to recover the threatened Klinse-Za caribou have more than tripled caribou abundance in 8 years (5). Thus, wood bison recovery highlights the continued mismatch between MVP recovery and the culturally meaningful recovery of wood bison. INSIGHTS Endangered species laws effectively prevent species extinction but fall short in restoring abundance for culturally important species. The precipitous decline of the southern bison subspecies, plains bison (Bison bison bison), occurred well before SARA or ESA came into effect (in 2002 and 1973, respectively). [Extracted from the article]