• Dettweiler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 hours 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.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      14 hours ago

      American Bison, too. The repopulation of American bison (often mistakenly called buffalo) is one of the most successful repopulation efforts in history. The reason you’re able to order buffalo (again, not actually buffalo) burgers at your local hipster burger joint is because American bison is no longer endangered. The population has come from less than 1000 total bison (all privately owned by a handful of conservationists) to over 400k today.

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      15 hours ago

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

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        10 hours 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.