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Re:Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in asp... by titzer on Sunday July 27, 2025 @03:06PM (#44703705)
Biodiversity, biomass, and ecosystem robustness are all objective measures.

Human settlement has a tendency to reduce all of them. The story here isn't that reintroducing wolves established some kind of human-centric value system, it's the surprisingly complex and far-reaching effects of just one change in the ecosystem, particularly the re-introduction of a top predator.

Note also that absent extinction altogether, without humans actively killing wolves, their numbers most likely would have recovered eventually, probably with similar effects. In essence, we just accelerated a type of healing process that would naturally take place when our enormous ecological footprint is removed.

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