This is the largest death toll since the 19th century, when we nearly wiped the species off the planet.

I just had a buffalo steak a few days ago. One of the leading 'killers' is Ted Turner.

About 30,000 bison are slaughtered each year for meat. Compare that to the 100,000 conventional cattle killed each day. Only about 20,000 bison exist in noncommercial "wild" herds.To put that in perspective, that's less than half as many as the 46,000 Ted Turner has on his 15 ranches. Sure, he sells his buffalo meat at his Ted's Montana Grill chain, but he also gave development rights to his Flying D Ranch to the Nature Conservancy and truly seems to be devoted to the preservation of native species. source
P.S. I've heard buffalo steak is a very good source of lean protein.