Sorry about that, I pasted the thumbnail URL instead of the article URL. Post is updated.

Agreed, that’s the only reason I’d want a huge amount of money. Conservation easements and land trusts all day.

A lot of the time they simply can’t adapt, not quickly enough at least.

Yes, that’s the key point. Individual species take a long time to adapt through evolution, and ecosystems can adapt at the cost of losing some species, but nothing can adapt at the speed and scale with which humanity is reshaping the Earth. A huge portion of the planet is no longer suitable for anything other than generalists, scavengers, and invasives.

Seems like you’d just lift up the mattress like they did for this picture.

Update: they won! Development has been halted.