r/Anticonsumption Jan 01 '24

Is tourism becoming toxic? Environment

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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.

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u/rekkodesu Jan 01 '24

Habitat loss and introduction of non-native predators.

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u/ArcadiaFey Jan 01 '24

Cats are horrible for native bird life an example

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u/VermicelliNo2422 Jan 01 '24

And rats. They’re two of the most devastating ecological forces that humans have helped spread across the planet.

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u/Terrible_Use7872 Jan 01 '24

Then they released mongooses to eat the rats, but mongooses don't eat rats...

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u/spudmarsupial Jan 01 '24

They need to release fishers to eat the cats /s