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I find the stories about fish from Lake Tanganyika interesting because of the many species of African Cichlids that came from that lake and ended up in my aquar

I find the stories about fish from Lake Tanganyika interesting because of the many species of African Cichlids that came from that lake and ended up in my aquariums. There was a time when environmentalists screamed that taking fish for our aquariums would cause their extinction. Then, IIRC, economic development projects that were guaranteed by environmentalists to do no damage to the biodiversity of African lakes drove most of their amazing species of cichlids extinct in their natural habitat. Now they are only preserved in our aquariums, where there is an economic incentive to keep breeding them.

pvaldes 3y ago
> economic development projects that were guaranteed by environmentalists to do no damage to the biodiversity of African lakes Destroy nature and then blame environmentalists for it. Yep. Tells me all that I need to know If I remember correctly environmentalists did exactly the opposite that you claim. Care to show any source for that really dusty meme? > environmentalists screamed that taking fish for our aquariums would cause their extinction You were clearly not listening in that class. Is taking fishes AND hybridizing those fishes in the aquariums, because all females in related species look pretty much the same and many local variants were later reclassified as new species. And not, nobody was screaming at you. We are in 2023. Fix your boo-science complex like an adult