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[Animals] Threatened Species and Habitat Restoration – An Easier Way


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To have a sustainable ecology we need to restore habitats lost to overdevelopment and over-exploitation of the natural world. The natural world is actively supported and maintained by the different species of animals that carry out their normal instinctive activities, which help to sustain and maintain the local ecology. Through these normal activities, such as foraging, burrowing, nesting, feeding, etc. , animal species help to propagate and “plant” local seeds in that area. Since native animals (including endangered species) often consume the plants that help spread, or those plants are consumed by other animals, this helps create a balanced ecology.

Few would dispute the idea that habitat restoration offers value not only to endangered species, but ultimately to the human species, as it strengthens local ecology and makes it more resilient. A healthy local ecology is better able to cope with changing weather patterns and recover more quickly from floods and other extreme weather events.

The challenge is how to restore the natural habitat. When the habitat was removed, so did the animals that maintained it. The loss of these “maintainers” makes it very difficult for the habitat to recover without human intervention. It was human intervention that caused the problem, so it often takes human intervention to solve it.

What is needed is for human intervention to imitate and temporarily replace the role of missing or very small animal species. When there are not enough animals left, we humans have to step in and perform the recreational and seed-planting functions that those animals would have provided.

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