What would it take for the woolly mammoth to survive?

"Tembo, Mother of Elephants" by Randy McDonald, on Flickr

My only problem with Derrick Stephan Hudson's 2002 statue "Tembo, Mother of Elephants", standing in the middle of CIBC's Commerce Court complex in downtown Toronto, is that its unique presence reminds me that there is not one species in the whole order Proboscidea left in Canada. The woolly mammoth disappeared a bit more than ten thousand years ago from the country, as part of a global extinction event. The human hunting following by the rapid transformation of the woolly mammoth's Ice Age environment was too much.

What would it take for the woolly mammoth to survive, anywhere? Was it too narrowly concentrated in a fragile environment to take the shock of contact with humans? Is it imaginable that it might have become more of a generalist, perhaps ranging more towards the prairies of North America (or Siberia) on the model of some of its African kin?
 
A snippet from a BBC article I just found:

One of the last known groups of woolly mammoths died out because of a lack of drinking water, scientists believe.

The Ice Age beasts were living on a remote island off the coast of Alaska, and scientists have dated their demise to about 5,600 years ago.

So really, climate change did the deed. Altering the climate would in turn alter all of human development from that point, so sadly it is considered an ASB POD.
 

PhilippeO

Banned
its too unused too humans, too big (need large grazing range, easily spotted, and meat too valuable to not be hunted), and too slow growth to survive human contact. have subvariant that can survive in steppe and forest might increase its chance to survive, but its still doubtful, Rhinoceros, Asian Elephant, and Wooled Rhino also become extinct in Northern Eurasia. it might be that northern clime is simply too sparse that human need to hunt all big herbivore.
 
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