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Can’t a billionaire buy a huge island, build a sanctuary, and relieve some kiwis of this pressure? Kids a million years from now will still want to see T-Rexs

• ben_w 1y ago
  Larger than New Zealand? The two main parts of the country are the 12th and 14th largest islands on the planet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_by_area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_by_area
  • b112 1y ago
    You need a really big island, like North America.
    • mort96 1y ago
      Is NA really an island? I always thought it was a peninsula on the coast of Central America
      • layer8 1y ago
        In that case, it's almost more plausible to count the Panama canal as a strait.
      • nkrisc 1y ago
        By that measure there's only one continent with a very, very large saltwater lake.
        • IAmBroom 1y ago
          Nonsense. There's four. One is icy AF, and another contains 95% of the world's deadly organisms.
  • bregma 1y ago
    I heard a wealthy man is looking to buy Greenland. Maybe it's for the birds?
  • nandomrumber 1y ago
    New Zealand's total land area is about the same as Colorado or Oregon, and the five extant species of Kiwi inhabits a fraction of that.