Even the most urban dweller instinctively knows that we humans have caused other animals and plants to go extinct as we have converted forest and prairie to farmland, housing units and industrial sites. What I found interesting in Andrea Laliberte's and William Ripple's attached analysis is the estimated extent of the range contraction(habitat no longer occupied) for our suite of native predators and hoofed herbivores..............Elk losing 74% of its pre European influenced habitat................Grizzly Bears down 53%..................................Wolves off 42%..........................Cougars decreasing 36%, etc, etc, etc(page 126 of attached document)
Low and behold the more generalist animals and least impacted by Mans activities have seen an increase of their range..............coyotes +40%................red foxes +13%...............raccoons up 18%.
Overall in the last 200 years, we have have eliminated the richness and wildness of our landscape. if we do not change our ways, will likely lose even more wildlife diversity and cause the remaining animals ranges to shrink even further.............
TIME TO EDUCATE.................TIME TO PUT INTO ACTION THE WILDLANDS VISION OF CORE RESERVES AND CONNECTIVE CORRIDORS........................PRONTO!
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