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Re:Badger or Bulbasaur – have children lost touch with nature? by Nursie on Monday October 02, 2017 @07:41AM (#15383097)
And yet this screed is just as one-sided. As an example -

>> Bucky the beaver wants your little settlement gone and flooded. He does not need protection after two generations- your house does.

Beavers are being reintroduced into the UK precisely because of the massive impact they have on local ecology. Bucky the beaver doesn't give two hoots about your house - but the earthworks Bucky and his family will undertake shape the local ecosystem and help keep everything alive.

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Re:Badger or Bulbasaur – have children lost touch with nature? by Pica_soO on Monday October 02, 2017 @11:47AM (#15384721)
What about the people that live where he is re-introduced? Is silently disowning someone by pushing a ecology that will make it vanish acceptable?
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Re:Badger or Bulbasaur – have children lost touch with nature? by Nursie on Monday October 02, 2017 @04:10PM (#15387485)
Most likely not silently, but in many cases yes. In the UK we have exterminated many of our large mammals over the years, to the detriment of many species and habitats.
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