[MMusson]

The Indigenous peoples hunted the great plains animals like the giant elk and the great sloth to extinction long before Europeans got here.

[OttawaFreeper]

Same thing happened in New Zealand with the Maori basically finishing off the giant Moa and doing that guaranteed the extinction of Haast’s eagle well before the white man (pakeha) arrived.

[Tell It Right]

The indigenous people also used a lot of slash and burn techniques that would make “environmentalists” heads explode today.