<div><p>It sounds like a bad science fiction movie, but Nikita Zimonv and his son Sergey really plan to let wild woolly mammoths roam around the huge eco-theme park they're building.</p><p>On the icy northern tip of Siberia, the two men have cleared 7 square miles of tundra and filled it with huge grass-eating animals like bison, moose and horses. </p><p>They hope that re-introducing these mammals to Siberia will help fight climate change, and their ultimate goal is to bring cloned woolly mammoths back to their old stomping grounds.</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Mamm1.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Mamm1_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Mamm1_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center">An artist's conception of the mammoth steppe.<cite>National Geographic</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p></p><p>The last woolly mammoths died out just under 4,000 years ago, but scientists think it's only a matter of years before this extinct species is brought back to life.</p><p>American scientists are already merging woolly mammoth DNA with modern elephants, with the hopes of growing new mammoths in a lab.</p><p>If they do, Zimonv says his park would be the perfect habitat to raise these massive creatures.</p><p>"By the time mammoths will be cloned, if they're cloned and brought to the park, we will have a system," he told <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3214381/ice-age-animals-back-life-pleistocene-safari-park/">the Sun</a>. </p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Tank.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Tank_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Tank_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center">Nikita and his son building their park<cite>Nikita Zimonv</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p></p><p>While providing a home for extinct animals is on their to-do list, the Zimonv family is really trying to fight climate change.</p><p>They say that by bringing large herbivores like mammoths or oxen back to Siberia, they'll help change the environment into a healthy grassland, which adds less carbon into the atmosphere.</p><p>If you want to help them accomplish this mammoth-sized job, check out their <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/907484977/pleistocene-park-an-ice-age-ecosystem-to-save-the?token=1af7c89f">KickStarter</a> and support them if you can.</p><p><strong>Share this post if you would love to pet a mammoth!</strong></p></div>