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They're mostly on islands so it's very unlikely they matter at all outside of their island. If Hawaii had never been discovered, we wouldn't have to worry about
by exporectomy 5y ago
They're mostly on islands so it's very unlikely they matter at all outside of their island. If Hawaii had never been discovered, we wouldn't have to worry about losing them.
I live in a country filled with endangered "native" species but after I grew up, I learned that many of them are basically the same as common species in nearby countries, so similar that even the experts keep disagreeing on whether they're the same species or not.
If their numbers are already extremely low for a long time and everything else is doing fine, it's unlikely they're "pillars of their biome".
- burnished 5y agoDo you believe that the process will slow? You seem to think that losing a couple species is fine. Have you thought about where this leads to, unchecked? Like, you don't lose 'crows, fucking all of them' except by losing a subspecie at a time.
- exporectomy 5y agoI think it's already slowed. We've stopped completely disregarding conservation and now it's a factor in any major works project that might disrupt the environment.