How to fail critically endangered species'

[rinalia]

There is an animal species that is at 3-20% of its original population. In four decades, the population of this animal species declined 85-97%.

It is on the cusp of extinction.

So if you are the creators and maintainers of the only international agreement on preserving endangered species, what do you do?

Do you:
A) Give that species the most

Comments

[rozae]

This is mind boggling.

Don't these people understand that once an animal goes extinct it is GONE FOREVER?

[rinalia]

I know. It's ridiculous.

Plus, if they want to KEEP eating tuna sushi, then maybe they should consider not exterminating them. Crazy talk, I guess.

[rozae]

EXACTLY. No matter how I look at it, it's in everyone's best interests to NOT hunt them into extinction.

[rhinecat]

I heard about this on NPR today and didn't understand why everyone hearing it wasn't fucking LIVID. The ocean is literally running out of fish! Literally! So what we should do is definitely keep the most critically-positioned species out of protected statuses, of course.

I never have eaten anything that comes out of the sea, but I stopped serving seafood-containing foods to my cats and dogs after seeing a travel documentary about a fishing village in Italy. They were catching tuna in a net, then using sharp hooks to stab the tuna and throw them into the boats. They were hacking these fish to pieces, while still alive and suffocating. It was horrible.

[urbpan]

You're right, if it was a land animal there would be an international outcry.

[yesididit]

sorry indeed.