Tourism isn’t the primary reason these birds went extinct. Native habitat was cleared for grazing cows and livestock. This is the same grassland now propelling wildfires. Airplane emissions contribute to global warming but this is not main reason these birds are gone. Habitat loss is.
That and sugarcane. Then they brought in mongoose to hunt the rats that ate the sugarcane not thinking beyond that what else the mongoose would eat. Another big factor has been avian malaria and pox. Tourism is creating habitat loss but on a small scale compared to the agricultural impacts over the last 150 years.
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u/12stTales Jan 01 '24
Tourism isn’t the primary reason these birds went extinct. Native habitat was cleared for grazing cows and livestock. This is the same grassland now propelling wildfires. Airplane emissions contribute to global warming but this is not main reason these birds are gone. Habitat loss is.