• ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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    7 months ago

    Were they introduced to the west by humans? If this migration is occurring without human intervention this is just evolution doing its thing.

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      7 months ago

      It’s going to be hard to remove human influence on this equation considering almost everywhere the human influence is present.

      • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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        7 months ago

        Agreed, I think a lot of conservationism can even go too far in removing or preventing natural adaptation to the human presence. I was mostly referring to cases where humans can transport species between local ecosystems in a way that wouldn’t occur otherwise, which can result in an environmental imbalance that doesn’t always fix itself since such changes in range don’t usually occur naturally on a scale as large as with, say, the introduction of the brown marmorated stinkbug into North America from Asia.