• Dettweiler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 days ago

      There’s been some conservation wins that I know of. Okaloosa Darter fish came off of endangered status, and eventually off of threatened The Red Cockaded Woodpecker was elevated from endangered to threatened a few years ago.

      Controlled burns in the US long leaf pine forests have also lead to a return of the quail population.

      Just trying to sprinkle a little good news out there.

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        8 days ago

        The irony of all ironies is how similar the words “conservation” and “conservative” are.

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          8 days ago

          That’s because the root of both is to conserve. To keep things the way they are.

          Politics gets in the way of that reality since they don’t actively want to keep it the same, they actually want to regress back to previous times they can exploit personally.