(urth) Wall of Nessus

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Hermann Goering is the father of modern conservation.

Good old Fats Meier.

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> From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
>
>
>> Wolfe makes a point of many Earthly species being extinct by Sev's time,
>> and eagles are endangered even
>> today.
>
> Fortunately, this last is not true in general.  The bald eagle, golden
> eagle, and white-tailed eagle (the widespread species in the cooler parts
> of the northern hemisphere) are all rated as Least Concern by the IUCN,
> though populations of all of them have been reduced or eliminated in some
> places, and the bald eagle was listed as endangered in the lower 48 for a
> number of years.  There a few endangered eagle species, many of them
> restricted to islands, but I can't find a good list.
>
> The Commonwealth has teratorns, which are much bigger than eagles and
> should naturally be much rarer, so I'd think it has eagles.
>
>> There could be a similar shortage of the highest flying gesse, perhaps
>> from Exultants overhunting them from flyers.
>
> A great image, but if you're going to overhunt waterfowl, shooting them
> when they're flying low or walking or swimming is a lot easier.
>
> I'm no expert, but I think that in our universe, aristocrats have been in
> the forefront of conservation of the species they like to hunt.  It's the
> species that the poor can kill for food or money, or the ones people see
> as threats (e.g., to livestock), that get hunted to extinction.
>
> Jerry Friedman
>
>
>
>
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