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Re:Barrier Reef doomed as up to 99% of coral at risk, report... by foobiter on Saturday April 03, 2021 @07:08PM (#26685549)
tigers and pandas have such small natural habitats now that they’re effectively extinct in the wild; i’m not advocating for it, but it seems like nothing outside of large scale ecoterrorism can do anything fast enough to save our charismatic megafauna for anything other than morbid exhibition
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Re:Barrier Reef doomed as up to 99% of coral at risk, report... by lenkite on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:03PM (#26685847)
Actually, wild tiger population has doubled (in India) in the last 12 years.

https://www.businessinsider.in/science/environment/news/indi...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49148174

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Re:Barrier Reef doomed as up to 99% of coral at risk, report... by jghn on Saturday April 03, 2021 @11:52PM (#26686757)
This is one of those areas where percentage and actual count tell different stories. "doubled" vs "increased by about 1000" are very different stories when viewed in the context of "all the individuals of a species across the globe"
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Re:Barrier Reef doomed as up to 99% of coral at risk, report... by foobiter on Saturday April 03, 2021 @08:20PM (#26685930)
it’s easy to double when numbers are under 5,000. Many ecologists are not as rosy as the indian government about this... 95% of their range is gone at this point and there’s not a lot of genetic diversity; a single disease can wipe out of the population. We’d need nearly 100,000 tigers to have the diversity to avoid this, and we’re not on track for that by a long shot.

https://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/april/tigers-genetic-div...

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Re:Barrier Reef doomed as up to 99% of coral at risk, report... by shrubby on Sunday April 04, 2021 @02:23AM (#26687335)
https://imgur.com/a/Yy59VjX there is no land for wildlife populations to grow as we're using the land for the meat.
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