Using screwworms, mosquitoes and invasive rodents as case studies, a team of researchers, including a Texas A&M professor, argues that deliberate full extinction is acceptable, but only rarely.
  • Drusas@fedia.io
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    11 days ago

    If you’re going to judge whether or not species are “okay” to go extinct because they cause harm, maybe realize that humans are also a species of animal.

    • Gsus4@mander.xyz
      1·
      8 days ago

      This was the first thing I thought when I saw the headline. After mosquitoes, fuck mosquitoes (but maybe even they have a function to recycle iron from large land mammals into limnic water environments, idk).