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Unlikely to ever recover due to habitat loss. I remember seeing many many more monarchs in the early 80s, and it's insane to think I may have already seen the l
by micromacrofoot 4y ago
Unlikely to ever recover due to habitat loss. I remember seeing many many more monarchs in the early 80s, and it's insane to think I may have already seen the last one I'll ever see.
Similar story with a much larger animal; the American bison. The low end estimates say their used to be 30 million roaming the plains. There are half a million now, most livestock. We'll never get them back.
- Maursault 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaquita#Population_status https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaquita#Population_status
- micromacrofoot 4y ago> Because the vaquita was only fully described in the late 1980s > Given the continued rate of bycatch and low reproductive output from a small population, it is estimated that there are fewer than 10 vaquitas alive as of February 2022 ugh, just the worst - from "barely knew it existed" to "extinct" in under 50 years