UK butterfly article

[Ron Gatrelle]

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From: "Kondla, Norbert FOR:EX" <Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca>
To: <fnjjk1 at uaf.edu>; <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 3:14 PM
Subject: RE: UK butterfly article


> I agree, without having seen the article. Naturalists and butterfly
> collectors and bird watchers, etc have been aware of this simple reality
for
> at least the past 100 years, if not longer. Everything else is completely
> useless if there is no habitat for the plants and animals. Having further
> empirical studies (many have already been done I think)to illustrate this
> obvious no-brainer, is a waste of valuable social resources that would be
> better spent actually protecting some habitat. Anyone who thinks another
> study on this topic of disappearing habitat is going to change the minds
of
> any politicians or cause society to refrain from destroying habitat, are
> likely to be disappointed ---
>

And we need to place the blame where it really belongs
not on
global warming
nor on
collector swarming
but on
ancestral destroying

We have met the enemy and it is us.


 
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