Re:You Can Turn Your Backyard into a Biodiversity Hotspot
by jonnycomputer on Monday February 27, 2023 @01:21PM
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See my comment above, but one reason they thrive is lack of predation.
And yes, the rhetoric can be feel very anti-immigrant (something my immigrant spouse picked up on very quickly)
Re:You Can Turn Your Backyard into a Biodiversity Hotspot
by HEmanZ on Monday February 27, 2023 @01:56PM
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One point on top of the poster that I think also matters, especially if you want more people to get involved: aesthetics.
Any regions of the world people actually live have really beautiful natural plants that are often excluded from peoples yards just because it’s not what the builder has massive stockpile of. You can use local plants to make your property look distinctly and beautifully “of a place” and not some e.g generic American burb or “trying to imitate” some other place (palm trees in Seattle, im looking at you)
Re:You Can Turn Your Backyard into a Biodiversity Hotspot
by caskstrength on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @07:23AM
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> FWIW, In my area of the world I hear about non natives being bad but they often seem to grow very well, eg in the wild. So it seems to me that they are often well suited to the local environment. The concern then seems to me to be an implicit preference for what was already here over new comers. To me, seems a bit “anti immigrant” and I just can’t relate.
This seems like a plot of some South Park episode or Onion news article TBH.
FWIW, In my area of the world I hear about non natives being bad but they often seem to grow very well, eg in the wild. So it seems to me that they are often well suited to the local environment. The concern then seems to me to be an implicit preference for what was already here over new comers. To me, seems a bit “anti immigrant” and I just can’t relate.
I definitely appreciate the point that we should avoid catastrophic decrease in diversity, and bringing in foreign plants could raise risk of that.