People don't like hearing this, but outdoor cats are the largest source of human-caused bird deaths. They kill Billions of birds every year in the US, especially ground-nesting birds.
I'm not claiming industrialization isn't the biggest cause, but our consumer-driven export of pets globally removing native prey from residential areas is nothing to be minimized
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u/ToothsomeBirostrate Jan 01 '24
He made that number up because it fits an /r/AmericaBad narrative. The 1950s aren't very notable on this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hawaiian_animals_extinct_in_the_Holocene
People don't like hearing this, but outdoor cats are the largest source of human-caused bird deaths. They kill Billions of birds every year in the US, especially ground-nesting birds.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380
At the end of the day, Hawaii is responsible for managing it's own ecosystem. Tourists don't vote.