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This isn't obvious at all. The best advocates for healthy duck and deer populations are people who enjoy killing and eating them. Butterfly populations are de
by samatman 5y ago
This isn't obvious at all.
The best advocates for healthy duck and deer populations are people who enjoy killing and eating them.
Butterfly populations are declining throughout the developed world, it seems like a safe bet to me that more amateur lepidopterists would serve as an advocacy group for arresting and reversing that decline.
Any individual butterfly is not long for this world, after all. Killing it and mounting it isn't a threat to its species; no one caring if they live or die is.
- robbrown451 5y agoYou've missed the point entirely. It's not only a matter of protecting a species, it's a matter of learning empathy.
- solarengineer 5y agoYou raise a good reminder about the decline of butterfly populations around the world. I do feel that it should be possible to use new technologies to share/capture what a butterfly looks like and then for others to view that. The actual killing and mounting shouldn't have to be a pre-requisite for being a lepidopterist, I feel.