Environment be damned or don’t be damned. Because you like them or because you don’t like your neighbors … what animals would you like to see locally that are not there ?

  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    They’re dying everywhere due to climate change and overuse of pesticides.

    Sorry, my dude… :(

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      11 months ago

      And we seem to like destroying their breeding grounds. I’m leaving some brush piles in place and starting to see few more of them

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        11 months ago

        Meanwhile, people in my town seem to think that climate change is a librul hoax, when you can clearly track things if you’ve lived in town for 50 years.

        Like, armadillos. They didn’t used to live here, because it got too cold. Now they do. Just six years ago I spotted the first (dead) one on an interstate that’s about 1500’ below where I live. This year I saw several that were about 500’ below where I live. That’s solid proof that their range is expanding, and in only six years.

        Monarch butterflies are also dying off; the habitats for milkweed are shrinking.

        It’s a lot of little things, and no one seems to remember them, because it’s feels so slow in terms of human perception, but so, so fast in terms of evolutionary epochs.