70% of animals wiped out in 50 years

Thank you LilyoftheValley .

That’s two of us that think that overpopulation of humans is the root cause.

Because we won’t do anything about that, everything else is just tinkering at the edges.

Heartbreaking. Not surprising thought considering man's general attitude. We are busy wrecking the planet and the poor, innocent animals suffer. Man is overpopulating the world without thought or care about other forms of life.

nanna8

There is still an if it moves, shoot it,mentality. It is disgusting. They often refer to it as ‘culling’ and then a few years later they panic because they are becoming endangered. No long term planning, no interest whatsoever from governments.

Re culling (or not), we were recently staying with my sister in Cape Cod. Some years ago we would regularly swim at her formerly favourite beach, but didn’t this time, nor the last time maybe 5 years ago.

The reason is this sign now exhibited at every single beach in the area! (Presumably so you can’t say you didn’t know and then sue the local authority.)

There have been many sightings in recent years, including very close to the shore, and some poor chap was killed at my sister’s favourite beach a couple of years ago.

Nobody gave the idea of Great Whites a thought before.

Nobody knows the reason for certain, but it’s thought that a) it’s because they’ve stopped culling seals (the Great White’s favourite food) so there are a lot more in the area, and b) possibly the sea being fractionally warmer, because of global warming.
(I don’t know why the pic came up in your post, Nanna8!)

Katie59

nanna8

There is still an if it moves, shoot it,mentality. It is disgusting. They often refer to it as ‘culling’ and then a few years later they panic because they are becoming endangered. No long term planning, no interest whatsoever from governments.

Space for the population comes first, animals don’t get to vote,
we got rid of many of our animals centuries ago.

Yup. I keep saying the only solution is to reduce the human population.

Not many agree with me though??

nanna8

There is still an if it moves, shoot it,mentality. It is disgusting. They often refer to it as ‘culling’ and then a few years later they panic because they are becoming endangered. No long term planning, no interest whatsoever from governments.

Space for the population comes first, animals don’t get to vote,
we got rid of many of our animals centuries ago.

There is still an if it moves, shoot it,mentality. It is disgusting. They often refer to it as ‘culling’ and then a few years later they panic because they are becoming endangered. No long term planning, no interest whatsoever from governments.

This is an interesting article on the subject: www.humanprogress.org/the-return-of-the-dead-countering-extinction/