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Even if all went as planned, and we forget all about the epidemic that is killing frogs, we are talking about removing millions of viable eggs from the nature.
by pvaldes 4y ago
Even if all went as planned, and we forget all about the epidemic that is killing frogs, we are talking about removing millions of viable eggs from the nature. Eggs from a species in decline and, even worse, bragging about it.
Just to pack "millions of them" in a place that can sustain food for, maybe, one hundred tadpoles?.
Does not seem like a wise move. Would compromise the success in the breeding areas for nothing.
And would be clearly illegal in many countries.
Rescuing tadpoles to a pond (in the same area) could be "justified" in a few cases like a temporary mud puddle that is drying really fast, but messing with the ecosystems just for likes is an horrible idea.
- dj_mc_merlin 4y ago> removing millions of viable eggs This is the part I do not agree with. There is no way he was able to harvest that many eggs. We're talking about multiple wheelbarrows worth of eggs that would have had to be found (in murky terrain, hard to see), harvested, transported.. this is not a one-teenager project. Nowhere in the videos does he show any sort of tools more advanced than a bucket to help with this -- you would not be able to do it with a bucket. Other commenters have pointed out his videos were stolen from Youtube, so the amount of eggs he actually probably harvested from nature is 0.