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Reading this as an Australian, where managing invasive species is a multi-million dollar problem, this is just...extraordinary. > "It's just like this crazy wi
by syllogism 12y ago
Reading this as an Australian, where managing invasive species is a multi-million dollar problem, this is just...extraordinary.
> "It's just like this crazy wildlife experiment that we're left with," says San Diego University ecologist Rebecca Lewison. "Gosh! I hope this goes well."
You...hope this goes well? How about you shoot them all, while there's still a countable number of them? It's not like there's a conservation question here. There's almost no genetic diversity in the herd, and hippos aren't threatened in Africa.
- fit2rule 12y agoThe difference is that in Australia you don't have whole towns worth of people coming out to protect their cute, floppy animals .. with guns and machetes. So, there's that.