• FireTower@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Not the fur farm side of the industry but actual trapping is still done but as a means of controlled population management for furbears. Specific species like beaver have a tendency to continually grow their populations as many places we’ve extirpated all natural predators.

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      11 months ago

      If the ecosystem is fucked then we need to restore the ecosystem, not start killing things to attempt a poor replication.

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        11 months ago

        The point is that it allows us to gain metrics on the population so we can implement meaningful changes, based on data.

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          11 months ago

          That makes zero sense, if you’re collecting data then you don’t take action as that spoils the experiment. If you’ve collected the data then you know the results and should start fixing things.

          At no point during this situation is there a decade or so for populations to ‘explode’.

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                11 months ago

                Dead furbearers are no longer a part of the population due to the means of sampling, trapping. So they’ve been removed from the population.

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                  11 months ago

                  Maybe this could work for a higher acceptance for mass shootings too, if the victims are not killed but removed from the population.

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                  11 months ago

                  Ew. ‘Sampling’ as killing now? And ‘furbearers’? Animals are being killed by humans, for fur. Using different words just shows how uncomfortable people are with what’s happening.