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Do initiatives like these hurt native desert species?
by rickcarlino 8mo ago
Do initiatives like these hurt native desert species?
- thyristan 8mo agoYes. But nobody cares about a few unimportant bugs and mice.
- bilsbie 8mo agoI’ve never heard this mentioned but it seems like an environmentalist could support increasing total life on a piece of land vs preserving specific sparse species. I’d rather see a region of land be a thriving rainforest with millions of species vs protecting some specific tree.
- b0rtb0rt 8mo agohave you ever been to a real desert? lots of plants and animals live there
- fhdkweig 8mo agoThere is an interesting effect where deserts help rain forests and oceans grow new life. Winds carry desert sands and dust that are rich in iron and phosphorus into the oceans and act as fertilizer. Even lifeless deserts are important to the global ecosystems. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=desert+sands+fertilize+oceans https://duckduckgo.com/?q=desert+sands+fertilize+oceans
- mikrotikker 8mo agoThe Sahara feeds the Amazon.
- criddell 8mo agoSurely deforestation hurt native species as well. Is there any reason to not try to reverse some of that damage? Do you think they are going to make things worse overall?
- OutOfHere 8mo agoA desert already is a collapsed biome relative to when it was not a desert. As such, it has a huge debt to repay to what was lost due to the desertification. If the desertification is not reversed, it will go only deeper into debt, killing what little life is left there via a continued rise in temperature. As such, what is being done to restore the biome is most appropriate.