Drat, I had my high-horse out and saddled.
One Invasive species killed off the Ivory Billed Woodpeckers and the Carolina Parakeets. An invasive insect was introduced nationally in the 17th Century. It swarmed into and took over hollow trees where the birds had their communal nesting spaces. Woodpecker and Parakeet populations crashed by 90% and never recovered.
The invasive insect? The European Honeybee.
There once was a girl named Myrtle.
Who had an affair with a turtle.
But what was phenomenal,
The swelling abdominal,
It proved the turtle was fertile.
Gorebal Warning Syndrome has deeply afflicted the minds at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Thanks for the info. Copied it so I’ll have an argument to use next time I have a pointless discussion with a GW millennial.
If the darwinian theory they propound is in fact true, their efforts to artificially perpetuate moribound species should be viewed as tampering with mother nature.
Bookmark.
I thought it was about GW
Such fraud in the treehugger community is common out here in CaCaLand. When they need to shutdown a new water storage construction, a new species of mud toad or such is “created” and everything grinds to a halt while a years/decades long “investigation” is launched.
So, we have less water available, and that is blamed (conveniently) on drought. Drought and water shortage are different things. Gawd causes first, corrupt politicians cause second.
“Actually, 12 of them already had been declared extinct. Of the 11, 8 never existed in the U.S., three were never species but rather subspecies of still very-much-surviving species, and six are fraudulently identified as “species.”
Interesting! Any more info or Links?
Wait a minute…you wrote this yourself?
I do want to understand what is meant by “23 have gone extinct”. Where? When? Even these basic questions are not mentioned.
Is USFW concerned about all species everywhere, or only saying it’s about US species? Does it mean within the last decade? I know they don’t mean “forever” because that is far from the truth.
I can’t even criticize if I don’t know what all the parameters are.