• Sizzler@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I get that they are talking about the numbers recorded are shrinking, but they are also talking about them never returning.

    I wonder if part of it is they’ve underestimated how important part of the rewilding process zoology is.

    They should have had vivariums of as many local varieties as reasonable along with every other type of breeding program. I know 10k species etc, but giving a jump start to an area with trees is missing the point that they are one part of the ecology.

    • Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      And then to make it even more complex, the more diverse number of soil species that dwarfs the above ground species that are more fragile to hooves, fire, and UV that have been completely lost (not even studied before they were lost).

      Humans could have kept track of a percentage of above ground species for introduction but the technology was barely there to even imagine what was lost in erosion and fire. And that likely underpins everything above ground.

      It sucks but we keep on soldiering on.