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Re:Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destructi... by 0-_-0 on Friday September 11, 2020 @07:38PM (#24448487)
To be fair, that's a desert so technically speaking agriculture increases biodiversity there
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Re:Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destructi... by bosswipe on Friday September 11, 2020 @08:28PM (#24448769)
Ok maybe something like this makes my point better since it shows a town where we live and outside of town where we don't live https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/sites/default/files/u...
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Re:Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destructi... by titzer on Friday September 11, 2020 @08:31PM (#24448792)
Biomass maybe, but biodiversity no. There is a myriad array of weird desert things adapted to such a climate, just not huge numbers of them.
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