Do you have any sources on birders directly causing extinction? I think it’s absolutely wild that someone in that profession would drive a species to extinction just to draw it so I’m curious to read more.
One of the most famous is Rollo Beck and the quelili. Collecting bird species was a very fashionable thing to do, the rarer the more money it brought in. Better to stuff it and exhibit it than to lose it to the forest - this is before conservation was as concept was a thing.
We're losing bird species like crazy - mostly due to lose of habitat (the big reason for the quelili as well). We're never going to learn.
Yeah but we also overestimate that because when you trace all the references back you come to a dubious statistic formed from someone predisposed to the position.
justinator|2 years ago
We're losing bird species like crazy - mostly due to lose of habitat (the big reason for the quelili as well). We're never going to learn.
melagonster|2 years ago
h0l0cube|2 years ago
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-24/alice-springs-author-...
renewiltord|2 years ago