When Animal Rights Activists Didn’t Let Invasive Animals Be Killed, Now It's HELL Out There

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[@kaijo7309]

Saving an Invasive Species because they also are living organisms is like saving a Cancer cell because it's also a living organism.

[@tamale4864]

I guarantee they would loudly fight to save that cancer cell if it was labeled as an animal species.

[@Abdega]

@@tamale4864 canine transmissible venereal tumor (CTVT) could be considered it’s own species in a weird way… so that might give them some ideas…

[@vhaelen326]

while i dont agree with animal right activists in this case... its not as big a deal as we make it out to be, there is no grand "status quo" that needs to be preserved, nature creates invasive species all the time, a "sea levels are rising, so these weird fish are now in a lake 100 miles inland that had been cut off from the ocean for millions of years" and "there was some ice and now we have pygmie MAMMOTHS the size of a calf on that island over there"(real shit btw) and oh yeah "some giant prehistoric swans larger then said mammoths on another island"(also real) and not to forget "well there was a huricane and some fucking lizzards managed to get picked up and dropped on an island 50 miles of the coast" nature does it all the time, yes species die out because they cant compete, and new species come into existance, such is life, such is nature, we shouldnt consider ourselfs the curators of nature as all that does is create stagnation, i mean sure should we limit our involvement and creation of invasive species? sure!, is it as big a deal as people make it out to be? no, and definitly not from natures perspective

[@BerserkerRider94]

Yeah like the invasive Wild Boar in Texas. At this point it is legal to get rid of them with Semi-Automatic weapons. Destroying the valley, and causing millions of dollars in damage to local farmers. If Texas Allpwed to bring Grey Wolves to Texas we might reintroduce an apex predator and have a chance on getting rid of it. Although the ribs are pretty good.

[@justadragonnamemarcus1751]

​@@tamale4864yup

[@Monstylicious]

Refer to invasive species as "colonizers" to change activists' minds.

[@dannydanumba2619]

Gotta translated it from English to “Self Righteous” for them to understand lol

[@justadragonnamemarcus1751]

Yup 💀

[@krishnaats7141]

Looks like that argument is not palatable to the anti Animal Rights people.

[@inthelandofmorethansmall7582]

I love it! And I agree! 👍 They don't speak the same language we do. They all but BEG to be manipulated! (Just like how they hate when Trump speaks plainly- they prefer their politicians to blow smoke jobs their ******.) Besides, they keep rewriting the rules. It's time we start playing by their "rules" - only then can they see their own hypocrisy! (*Just like when you're playing Monopoly with a kid and they wanna cheat and take an extra turn or "throw the dice again cuz they don't wanna go to jail" or when they wanna borrow money from the bank to pay off their debts.... The only way to teach them about fairness a d the importance of rules is for the adult to do the same thing against the kid and abuse the "game". But then again, leftists are essentially spoiled toddlers who all need a spanking, so... )

[@timeonly1401]

Convince the bleedinghearts that invasive species are "oppressors", and they will fljp sides?! LOL! The sad & annoying thing is that they KNOW NOTHING, but lecture everyone else as if they do. Do damage,.and then slink off to find other situations to "care about" and make worse. Duh!

[@umbreoniteUwU]

I worked at a fish hatchery in the Bay Area in California. Every year, we would collect spawning salmon and trout, gather and fertilize their eggs, and raise the young. It was MONTHS of hard work. Once they got to a certain size, we'd bring them to the bay and would put them in a large net underwater where they could acclimate to the water, grow, and learn how to hunt smaller prey in the water while remaining safe from other predators. Then one day, some group of animal activists decided that the fish were being... held captive? Or something? That they deserved to be free? So months before the fish were big enough to safely leave the net, the activists came in and cut it themselves. Every year, we'd have a big day where a bunch of people would come from all over to see the fish being released, and we had educational things on conservation for kids too. The way the net was designed, it had to be opened a certain way so the fish could all leave in one big school together. The way the "activists" opened it, though, meant that the fish could only leave a few at a time and likely got picked off by predators. Its just so frustrating that we had put in months of hard work and love into these fish, and someone thought they knew better than us without any actually knowledge or training, and they likely ended up killing THOUSANDS of fish. Its stupid.

[@ownlydown5933]

Heh. Wouldnt it be nice if people just minded their Own Damn Business? Haha.

[@umbreoniteUwU]

@@ownlydown5933 seriously

[@Blackandwhitecat-to5ll]

Are there security measures after that event?

[@billwendell6886]

Keep voting Democrat and funding looney left schools. Don't worry though, pretty soon Cali won't be able to afford funding anything but welfare checks. The frills will have to go.

[@ownlydown5933]

@@Blackandwhitecat-to5ll i think the Hatchery Jobs are Government jobs so any Tampering eith Government People and property should bag you Prison Time. But idk

[@gavindawson3108]

Had the police called on me countless times for shooting Grey Squirrels in my garden. Been in the same house for 25 years, use to have the odd Red visitor when i was a kid. Now it's almost a weekly sighting of greys. My stupid neighbour would actively feed the greys...

[@aldenfloyd5432]

Squirrels are basically just rats with pretty fluffy tails. I know someone will come along and tell me that they are not closely related, but they are both rodents that cause a lot of damage when they invade new ecological environments.

[@gcanaday1]

​@@aldenfloyd5432My dad called them "tree rats." They're greasy, but you can eat much worse things and still come out on top.

[@ownlydown5933]

Keep doing it. Your Property. And The Animals arent Protected. By law your doing everything legally. 🤷‍♂️

[@dejatheeempath985]

Do you happen to have a giant red squirrel friend named Anthony?

[@NauerBauer]

Grey squirrels carry diseases that harm native squirrels and chipmunks. Besides, they're basically tree rats.

[@djkahless6971]

This is why I stopped volunteering for the local bird rescue here. It was fun for a while until they started sending me out to go and rescue invasive species. It wasn’t about conservation or the larger impact of these animals, it was about satisfying their egos and getting promotional pictures for their Facebook. I tried to explain that we’re doing more harm then good when saving invasive species and they got mad and said “we save lives! It doesn’t matter what species!”. They were so blinded by the romanticized appearance of “saving lives” that they willingly endangered the lives of the animals who are dying due to invasive species.

[@oddjam]

Omg if this is true you'll have such a massive story on your hands please post a source so we can confirm and report on it.

[@djkahless6971]

@@oddjam This was probably 5 years ago now and in the Tampa Bay Area. I’m not sure what sources there could be since this is a personal story…but they were called “Birds in Helping Hands”. As far as I know they actually got shut down for not having the proper permits and weren’t allowed to have those animals on their property. It was basically run out of this lady’s house and backyard where they had built cages. They were good at saving the birds though, they just did it for the wrong reasons and were part of the problem in the long run. I have some photos that others took of me during rescues but it’s not something I’m interested in sharing online.

[@Leo_Pard_A4]

Was this in a "sanctuary city"?

[@wannabecarguy]

I have the same thoughts.

[@az-yq3rk]

@@oddjam Hello...the evidence is all around us and in this video.

[@dm3280]

Anyone can be an animal rights activist, but not everyone can be a biologist.

[@escapetherace1943]

species 'invade' other territories also without human intervention. In the end even if they are invasive it is the strong species that survive. It is almost equally unnatural to stop invasive species as it is to introduce them

[@PT03]

@@escapetherace1943Cut the bullshit buddy

[@escapetherace1943]

@@PT03 where on the teddybear did the Gray Squirrel touch you?

[@58.sekarnaraandhitahermawa92]

​@@escapetherace1943that's not how it works, a biologist know their knowledge of diversity - the power of fertility in each group - along with behaviour of each organisms.. Animal right activist not always because they often lack of knowledge BUT when confronted about that, they aren't willing to learn. Throughout history, human intermission be it directly or indirectly is the reason for invasive species come over to certain places and making native species lose their place

[@night-x6793]

Well I have basic biology knowledge and I'm not a biologist but the problem I see most refuse to learn about the basics of the important thing you need before doing anything.

[@mwudzy]

I'm British and I've never seen a red squirrel in the wild, but out of my window I can see 2 grey squirrels in my garden right now, they're a menace!

[@snowmiaow]

We have fox squirrels in Cleveland Ohio. They are red.

[@fackynaxicht8603]

Sooo you are saying that instead of pelleting them you did exactly what? Reached for your devil's box and wrote angry commentary about it? Are you clinicically insane? People like you are the part of the problem. Btw airgun with shitfuckton of ammo can be purchased for only 300$

[@loganentertainment1814]

Words can’t describe how ignorant and stupid that Activists can be. They stick to their “beliefs” without thinking about the long term effects, because they can’t fathom that THERE ARE types of creatures that can destroy other creatures habitats and ruin the ecosystem.

[@TheGosgosh]

„But, but…it’s only bad when humans do it!!!“

[@kevinplayz7965]

​@@TheGosgoshthey always forgot that they themselves are also humans

[@felixdk8727]

Non rights activists can't fathom that THERE ARE types of humans that live of of sensationalism and that THERE ARE types of creatures that cannot destroy other creatures habitats nor ruin the ecosystem.

[@C21H30O2]

It makes the beliefs these types drag through the mud look good...

[@chaosinc.382]

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions... And a lot of corpses.

[@VivekSingh-tj8qo]

No, the problem is with an absolutist mentality that comes with little knowledge and large ego

[@Th3_Gael]

Indeed, dogooders with little understanding of Chestertons fence

[@brianalex8883]

Facts

[@onba7726]

They don't really have good intentions, they just want to feed their egos.

[@wannabecarguy]

Adding them to the menu is a great way to contend with invasion .

[@yukipaw1702]

Notice how animal rights activist usually try to protect animals that are small, cute or look familiar to them, anything that can threaten them or looks ugly will immediately be forgotten. It shows how shallow their understanding of nature and the environment are.

[@sonicmiku3009]

Right, it's like peoples reactions to a butterfly compared to cockroaches. One is pretty, the other is gross but both serve a purpose in the ecosystem. Probably a bad example but you get the point.

[@SmileyMPV]

Im sorry but this is just plain wrong isnt it, those lobsters look fucking disgusting for example lol

[@Abenteuerlich77]

​@@sonicmiku3009No, that's an excellent example.

[@reddiver7293]

LOL, you are so right. People pontificating about their love for wolves and polar bears and not missing a beat as they eat beef, bacon and fowl that were raised in misery and slaughtered in terror.

[@AlBundy-ds8ps]

Never seen a protest over rat traps

[@vernonrabbetts]

Back in the 1980's in Dorset, England a school had a collection of Tropical frogs they used in Biology. They were very proud of the collection and had invested heavily in keeping them well and healthy. With the well known climate in the UK this was essential as the Tropics is not a word people associated with Wimborne ever. The Animal Liberation Front, ALF, objected to this cruelty and staged a daring late night raid to free the frogs over the Christmas holiday. They were discovered the next morning, all dead, metres from their storage area where the heaters, habitat and water were by the staff member who looked after them. The ALF and their descendants for whom principles matter more than collateral damage.

[@nathanielbass771]

destruction of private property, grand theft, breaking and entering, cleanup and disposal (they better have been fined to oblivion)

[@zaeemchogle8219]

they were arrested for vandalism, animal cruelty, and trespassing right? RIGHT???

[@vernonrabbetts]

​@@zaeemchogle8219 Not to my knowledge. But there is utility in animal rights protestors and campaigners. The same as there is in Social Justice, Environmental and anti-Fascist protestors and campaigners... ...just educated and effective ones.

[@lisavauhti7675]

Yup, animal right activism added to wokeism traits should it be called ALM

[@brandonkegler8585]

​@@vernonrabbettsI largely agree with you. The problem with the "anti Fascists" is the sheer amount of things they consider Fascist. Basically, if you don't subscribe to their specific, niche brand of leftist politics, you're a Nazi.

[@jeebus2121]

No one has ever accused animal activists of people intelligent or asking "And then what?" They emote rather than think.

[@AlbuquerqueBandit]

If you watched the video, you'd discover the actual invasive species problems were caused by non-activists 1) the guy who bought crayfish as pets and flushed them down the toilet when he was tired of them 2) rich opulent people buying foreign birds and introducing them to the environment as a status symbol

[@ZOMBIEDRAGON68]

And this is why Animal rights activist need to look at the bigger picture instead working about of animals that don't belong

[@cedhome7945]

Can't educate pork .....

[@ascrein5247]

This video testifies the stupidity of activists who harmed the animals and environment more than the people they were stopping.

[@soudino2723]

cant educate the mindless

[@spaceace1006]

"Animal Rights Activists" are generally Self-Loathing Misanthropes! That is, they harbor a hatred of humanity and consider Animals to be more important!

[@jessetran7463]

Can’t fix stupid

[@spaceman1501]

Activist be turning animal rights into animal wrongs

[@ACV-1]

Hahahaha

[@jonahansen]

Good one!

[@joshuaparnecio4404]

@Divzieyes

[@thatguywhoanimids]

I wish I could like a comment not twice, but thrice.

[@RedwoodTheElf]

We need a restaurant chain with an "invasive Species" menu. Feral Hog bacon, Roasted Mute Swan, Crayfish on the side...

[@notyourbusiness2449]

That’s a great idea! I know that within the foraging and hunting communities there’s a movement of eating invasives

[@Caenef]

Good idea in theory, but you also run the risk of creating perverse incentive; if you try to use invasive species as a resource, it motivates people to maintain or expand those resources, undermining the purpose of culling the invasives in the first place. Like places that put a bounty on killing snakes, people just bred more snakes in order to get more money.

[@Aliandrin]

@@Caenef The real perverse incentive would be to label everything in sight as invasive. Also waterfowl is really oily. And there's no white meat. There's meat on the front that's similar in texture to white meat, but it's dark meat.

[@Caenef]

@@Aliandrin to be fair, people do still eat water fowl despite its oilyness and dark meat. I actually like dark meat better than white on average, haha.

[@RedwoodTheElf]

@@Aliandrin Plenty of people eat Geese and Ducks, why not swans?

[@GhostoftheSnow271]

I work for the DNR, animal rights are important, but protecting our ecosystems is far more important that how cute something is.

[@AlbuquerqueBandit]

If you watched the video, you'd discover the actual invasive species problems were caused by non-activists 1) the guy who bought crayfish as pets and flushed them down the toilet when he was tired of them 2) rich opulent people buying foreign birds and introducing them to the environment as a status symbol

[@custodianguard8199]

I love how so many animal rights activists talk about humans destroying the ecosystem... Then proceed to destroy an ecosystem.

[@GlobalBricks1]

Yep😂😂.😅..😢

[@baraka629]

Because they operate on female thought patterns. Emotional, self serving, self congratulatory, socially desirable.

[@DragonOfTheMortalKombat]

Hypocrisy at its best.

[@GewelReal]

​@@DragonOfTheMortalKombatyou look familiar

[@user-ir8er1bh4q]

They are right, but dont have a clue of the big picture. It is not like this goes for every animal rights activist, but for those mentioned in the video, it is true. If us humans messed it up, we also have to do something about it, even if it means, to harm an invasive race.

[@MysteriousStranger50]

Animal activists who are seen and recorded releasing invasive species into the wild, should be sued by the local government for the damage it does to the environment, and sued harder if it extincts another species.

[@webwhisper2701]

absolutely agree.

[@trillrifaxegrindor4411]

being sued doesnt change the outcome sadly

[@G-A-Jaxon]

We’re all invasive species

[@freespeech6999]

Not sued, prosecuted and pay damages and jail time. This should be put into law.

[@jeffk464]

Its usually illegal.

[@exodusfivesixfivesix8050]

This is why knowledge is better than feelings.

[@AlbuquerqueBandit]

The thing about the video is the real problems discussed were not caused by activists. The invasive species introduced thanks to some jerk flushing his pets down the toilet, and rich opulent people buying foreign birds as decorations. Definitely not activists, man.

[@Amado79193]

dude we learned about this in elementary. there’s countless episodes in children’s cartoons about this topic. invasive species are one of the worst things that can happen to an ecosystem. seriously how dumb can these people be. I remember seeing so many cartoons tackle this topic on PBS. they’re slowly ensuring that all the animals die instead of just one small group.

[@Blackheartgamer1]

This is why activists should pay for damages, caused by their stupidity.

[@bothack8874]

bold to assume they have money to begin with.

[@DeathlordSlavik]

@@bothack8874 Lots of them do as they come from upper middle class families and were spoiled as kids and never told no. Anyways point is they live off what they were given by their family and do basically nothing but cause problems for everyone else for the entirety of their existence.

[@wannabecarguy]

This video is just scratching the surface. He could have made a 24 hour video or a series on the topic.

[@mrsleep0000]

They couldn't afford it, no matter how rich they are.

[@androlibre9661]

they're hippies, they have no money

[@matwuzheer]

“If you’re driven by emotions, you’ll probably do more harm than good.” Heck of a line.

[@mobsiesixsixsix9785]

It's also nonsense.

[@ComputerKevAZ]

this sums up the liberal mind, in a nutshell! 😂

[@blitzworldace]

great one to write down and keep

[@Be_great577]

Reminds of "refugees welcome" posters

[@mobsiesixsixsix9785]

@@Be_great577 It would. It never occurs to people like you that humanity is the problem and not other humans.

[@takotako808]

In the 50s they introduced some invasive fish here in hawaii.... Thinking it would be a good idea.... Those fish are so abundant now and decimating the reefs..... Anyone who doesnt understand what " invasive " means is a danger.

[@marialourainebanosia26]

Man Hawaii cant catch a break when it comes to being screwed over

[@-ZM_Gaming-]

​@@marialourainebanosia26The worst one was the day which will forever live in infamy

[@wojciechmikosz407]

I am 50 years old and remember red squirrels from my childhood in Poland. Haven't seen one in more than 30 years... .

[@fackynaxicht8603]

White working people will end up some in 100' years horizon in Europe

[@Alinor24]

In Germany we still have them, but I think they are getting rarer here too.😔

[@danielreed5199]

KZbin just threatened to ban me for calling a Crayfish a sl*t. I love this platform so much.

[@fcgHenden]

How tf did that happen? 😂😂 I cuss all the time in YT, all for fun of course but I guess you were closer to he fringe! Were you perhaps a habitual sxl cusser of the craycrays? F

[@WarshipMolester]

I hate youtube

[@MikeG.666]

Hit the like just cause that happens to me way too often. I've been threaten3d (by utube, just so we are clear) several times. Now I type mean words like a child to avoid algorithms. Stay funny.

[@esko911]

@@WarshipMolester GayTube. lol they consider allooootttt of things hate speech or harassment. heck, you could blink and get muted for a day or comments deleted.

[@mrmason2342]

​@@WarshipMolester Ayo nice name and pfp, me too!

[@nappyhead_loner123]

It’s like literally a bunch of kids kicking and screaming “No! Don’t hurt the poor animals! They did nothing wrong.” They have no concept of realism, they just wanna protect animals no matter the consequences.

[@cirinaharvey1466]

Sounds all too familiar now but with people

[@regenwurm5584]

@@cirinaharvey1466 i can't breathe

[@raistlarn]

​@@cirinaharvey1466 well humans are an animal (a very smart animal on the whole) and are only native to 1 or 2 continents.

[@iwatchyoutube523]

@@cirinaharvey1466 didn't take very long for the comments to turn racist.

[@notjohnkididk]

its the people that illegally release animals into the wild because of their irresponsability and negligence that are at fault.

[@benward6017]

Pine beatles have the same story. They moaned and complained to save the trees cause they needed to cut 1/2 mile swaths to stop their spread. Now hundreds of miles of trees are what's called "standing dead".

[@Aliandrin]

To be fair it probably wouldn't have worked. It didn't work with the citrus canker after all the big producers forced houses with citrus trees to cut them down. When the canker got into the big producers anyway, the law that infected trees had to be chopped suddenly went away.

[@justicedunham4088]

These are the kind of people that would stop you from shooting the zombies during the apocalypse because “that’s mean”. Activists rarely make the situation they claim to care about better.

[@J.Battles]

The level of ignorance required to justify the eradication of a threatened species for the sake of a plentiful invasive species is almost to the level of ignorance required to think that releasing captive creatures into a non-native ecosystem is helping anything.

[@jimmyarbutus2555]

What's the matter with you? Killing animals can be fun for the entire family. You are most likely some sort of jerk.

[@bestdjaf7499]

That's why people even in BC times argued against democracy. The majority are just not very smart. So we have a Republic. At least the smartest hopefully would represent the rest.

[@Xion431]

lol IQ people with no sense of higher purpose or a sense of self worth, so they allow their ideology to consume them

[@unsastisfied]

haiz, but it's not these animals fault. a lot of time human fault, but animals still have to suffered because of it.

[@showwhite7320]

​@@bestdjaf7499 "At least the smartest hopefully would represent the rest." The problem is that the smartest do no act in the best interests of the rest. They will inevitiably subjugate them and monopolize power. And that's the dilemma. Democracies are far better than monarchies, but democracies are flawed as well. We need to evolve to the next step. We need to figure out a way to force the smartest to act in the best interests of the populace. How? Don't know… One major problem is that the less smart can't figure out which smartest is helping or hurting them. Consider Trump. The guy has convinced 1/2 of our population that he's acting in their interests while stealing from them. He's not even that subtle about it, but he's got them enthralled. The guy cut taxes on the wealthy by 40%, yet half of Americans still vote for him. We truly live in an idiocracy.

[@sugarmouze]

Here in Ireland the recovery of the pinemartin population has made an impact on the grey squirrel invasion. Our native reds are wary of the pinemartin, knowing their terror, but the greys don't have that instinct. So greys have become a target for the pinemartins, reducing their numbers and giving the red squirrels a chance to recover.

[@fritzjagr5121]

Save the pine marten!

[@DoggyBingBong]

TGSD

[@PovilasPanavas]

They will learn. They are bigger and stronger than red ones, so if red ones can avoid pinemartin, grey ones will be able as well with time.

[@Cuccos19]

@@PovilasPanavas Than human interact should do the rest. Not in every aspect about gun laws, but about airguns Ireland is more than a head ahead of Hungary (my country) and airgun hunting is actually legal (or is the UK? Sorry if I made a mistake!). Anyway, grey squirrel is nice on roast, or that's what I've heard.

[@thevault5828]

Don’t let the international communists destroy your country with their legions of unintelligent half-wits who think they’re saving the world.

[@alumycrick2911]

I'm an Australian. In this long-isolated island continent, with its unique flora and fauna, the damage wrought by a plethora of invasive species over the past two and a half centuries has been extensive and severe, earning Australia the ignominious sobriquet of Ground Zero in the worldwide problem of native species decline and extinction. Whether it be feral goats, pigs, camels, rabbits, cats, Eurasian red foxes, Indian Myna birds, European carp, cane toads, bumblebees or other exotic pests, the broad societal consensus is to eradicate to the degree and by whatever means are practicable. Large, established animal welfare charities as well as smaller, more ideologically-driven animal rights groups exist here, and they play an important public role by alerting the responsible authorities and the general community to instances of wanton cruelty and lazy neglect and seeing that the individuals and organisations at fault are duly counseled or prosecuted. But when it comes to the protection of the Earth's natural ecosystems and the native species that depend on them, the motivations for taking harsh measures against exotic predators and competitors are entirely different. A few voices raise strenuous objection, but they are overridden on the political left by the powerful Green movement and on the right by agriculturalists whose interests are also threatened by the depredations of the invaders. These forces aren't always in agreement with each other, as the imperatives of the economy and nature conservation sometimes conflict, but on this one issue at least they fully concur.

[@EvOLvEDT3RROR]

Out of pure spite, i watched the entire video THEN dropped a like. Dont tell me what to do!

[@b1646717]

You’re not the boss of me!!!

[@IcyPinguin]

Animal activist in Denmark fucked up once by releasing minks into the wild, by breaking into a mink farm, but then found out they caused alot of harm against the native birds by eating their eggs... after that haven't heard any dumb things done by these activist here, yet.

[@samsonsoturian6013]

They vandalized a mink farm. Got it

[@user-ml1rm2fh6f]

Did the government of Denmark go after those thugs?

[@DarkZodiacZZ]

If I remember right this happened in Finland too.

[@Charles-cs8mv]

Nice, but now the harm is done, right? Did they catch the minks, or could they establish a population, still going havoc on birds?

[@DarkZodiacZZ]

@@Charles-cs8mv Those minks are quite adaptible so releasing them from farms is slackjaw level of stupid move. It can also outcompete european mink.

[@lesewing]

These groups often are selective on what animals they want to protect. They won't protect an endangered spider or some rare plain slug for example. They definitely won't care about rare plants being decimated by invasive animals.

[@christyj24]

And most of them are pro abortion. Aren't the children more important?

[@tristanhallett4793]

​@@christyj24 Aaaand this dumbass comes in and ruins it

[@wfcoaker1398]

​@@christyj24Fetuses aren't children.

[@timmholl9238]

Frogs. Fish. Their "options" are limitless.

[@Golightly354]

@@christyj24 They are until they are born, then they are not important. It's an agenda.

[@9Curtana]

One creature that is striking back against the grey squirrel is called the Pine Martin. It has a surprisingly large effect on the squirrel’s.

[@Link2000o]

Yet there still spreading like wild fire we need to take a step in and fix our mistakes

[@misfitlife1866]

My favorite thing about animal activism is how much they truly believe they are educated on the matter and know what’s best. While simultaneously claiming conservation efforts are evil and animal cruelty

[@JayWorrall-zh5vu]

the irony of north american squirrels colonizing the U.K.

[@Jesus.J-vd4hh]

Well typed

[@JohnDoe-pk2hs]

Someone always finds the lighter side of something like this, well played.

[@nicklambros6873]

Might as well call them white squirrels

[@Jesus.J-vd4hh]

@@nicklambros6873 Not funny enough but almost there

[@MattiasKSe]

Reminds me of back in the days here in Sweden, when animal right activist released minks (on a regular basis) from fur farmes. The let loose thousands of minks that where breed and raised in captivity, and they devastated to local bird populations and later died of starvation when the winter came. Big brain move.

[@DragonOfTheMortalKombat]

That activist needs to be charged with serious crimes, we gotta make an example out of them.

[@playmakersmusic]

@@DragonOfTheMortalKombat Yep they need to sign a contract where they bear the consequences should things turn south.

[@snowmiaow]

Mink got released here in Ohio too.

[@PilotTed]

What most animal rights activists don't understand about hunting, is the fact we hunters do far more for conversation, and provide the vast majority of the funding, then any one else. If we didn't hunt, game animal's like deer would overpopulate, destroying the environment through over grazing and such causing starvation. The overpopulation would also cause diseases to spread like wildfire. They don't understand the fact that, millions of deers would be starving and disease ridden, which can be prevented by hunters killing thousands nearly instantly with a bullet or arrow.

[@OIllllO]

"game animal's like deer would overpopulate, destroying the environment through over grazing and such causing starvation. The overpopulation would also cause diseases to spread like wildfire" Sounds like what humans have been doing.

[@thatwolfdude018]

You sound like news anchor. Not like a boring news anchor but like one of the cool ones that go out to the streets and talk to random people

[@joshpotts7640]

I cant imagine being THE reason entire species are eradicated in an area because my bleeding heart couldn't understand the damage an invasive species can cause.

[@Tommy1marg]

I don't think they even care about that

[@mobsiesixsixsix9785]

Well you're human so being an invasive species you've made many extinct.

[@StatesMusic]

they literally explain it in the fucking video.

[@joshpotts7640]

@@StatesMusic Gee, ya think!? I'm clearly talking about the activists. What was the point in stating the obvious with an attitude?

[@bearsausage8599]

@@joshpotts7640 youtube comment sections are just mean.

[@aarusty51]

Where I live the animal activists are complaining that there is hardly any song birds. They dont seem to realise that there is a squirrel every where you look, also magpies and introduced birds of prey. The poor things dont stand a chance. Yet they are blaming over population of humans for the problem.

[@stewwilliams1537]

Don't forget the domestic cat. They kill off our song birds just as wel.

[@icosthop9998]

​@stewwilliams1537 Yes, the cats

[@jimmyarbutus2555]

Your story sounds boring.

[@stellaluuk2713]

Don't forget the windmills, the wind farms are on the migration roots and kill birds and bats!

[@hallooos7585]

@@stewwilliams1537It’s not the cats fault it’s the owners… dogs also do harm to environment too..,

[@AnyoneCanSee]

When I was a kid I saw plenty of red squirrels but now only see grey squirrels and I live in Edinburgh, Scotland. So that should tell you how quickly and completely they have taken over.

[@martinlong2804]

The same happened in Ireland, with the grey squirrel. There was a mink farms and animal right activist, broke into the farms and set them free.

[@AlbuquerqueBandit]

Yeah. the thing is, the grey squirrel problem was introduced in the 1800s, by regular people like you who thought they looked cool and would be a nice status symbol to have. Like the non-activist dude who had crayfish as pets, in this video, and released them when he was tired of taking care of them. Or the rich people who introduced swans. Most of these issues in the video were not caused by activists. Just regular people like you.

[@jamesfloerke7519]

I blame Disney for making all animals cute and cuddly. Giving them human thoughts and emotions.

[@jirou6228]

Lmao what ? Do you really think Disney giving human thought and emotion for animals ? 😂

[@nightsofterror_]

R/whooooosh

[@Rickswars]

Right. Dogs life span is shorter today compared to the fifties.

[@hezmydaddyo2722]

It’s called anthropomorphism. My cats and dogs are nearly human and super smart❣️

[@bluecoin3771]

Oh Disney, look up Lemmings sometime, you’re in for a read.

[@catchofthedave8681]

"if you are driven by emotions, you are probably doing more harm than good" that is the truest statement I've ever heard. Its true in politics too, and religious groups. Some of our politicians say things and do things to try and get emotional responses from their supporters. I think we've all seen it. Some of our politicians themselves get up in the house and congress and do things driven off of emotion. Fear usually. They try and pass bills and restrict peoples rights because of fear. Then anger. "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering" -- master yoda...... but omg is it true.

[@xenuburger7924]

Psychologists did a study with FMRI brain imaging. They found that politics and religion activate identical regions of the brain.

[@julitakamaki4386]

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin A real person.

[@DongThePsychopath]

The entire modern right wing platform is based on being scared of the other side. Thier media pushes the narrative to make money

[@liamcollinson5695]

Never trust a politician if they mouths are moving

[@coreym2336]

@@xenuburger7924 Politics is downstream of Culture and Culture is informed and underpinned by Religious traditions so I can see the findings not being that far-fetched or outlandish. (This also includes Atheism because Religion is the belief in something higher than oneself Atheism has its core tenants that are held above much like any religion).

[@dmmmwerd]

That three year delay is what we call lawfare. Using the process itself as your weapon, rather than actually having a meritorious argument /believing you'll actually win the argument.

[@Aliandrin]

Using lawfare should be a crime. Or maybe just some sort of loser-pays system so you can't sue people out of business even if they can prove they've done nothing wrong. People with more money can heap lawsuits on a person with less money to cost them their livelihood even if they'd never win any of those lawsuits in a million years. At very least, you should be able to sue people for frivolously suing you, and collect damages equal to what you paid to defend yourself.

[@Corvus_theCrow]

Can the activists be sued? It makes sense, because of them the grey squirrels spread and destroyed most of the native species

[@michaelsteven8892]

Blindly protecting the invasive creatures is giving injustice to the other species that stand vulnerable,eventually leading to ecological disbalance & its consequences !

[@pokebreeder2517]

thats activist in general never taking 5 seconds to think things over before its to late

[@hallooos7585]

@@pokebreeder2517They will cancel you instead…

[@amilee7580]

These animal rights activists who let that happen should be sued

[@n0namesowhatblerp362]

they do it to humans too. Blindly shouting for palestine weehh weeehh

[@showwhite7320]

Well, consider whether the ecological balance is the goal. You're suggesting a conservative mindset, which is currently a bane to our society. Why do humans want to keep things the same?

[@lycanlass]

Imagine wanting to take care of the environment but then absolutely devastating it because someone didn't know what they were talking about.

[@smol_boi634]

Maybe critical thinking ain't that bad after all 🤔

[@commiezombie2477]

That's what leftist typically always do.

[@AlbuquerqueBandit]

If you watched the video, you'd discover the actual invasive species problems were caused by non-activists 1) the guy who bought crayfish as pets and flushed them down the toilet when he was tired of them 2) rich opulent people buying foreign birds and introducing them to the environment as a status symbol

[@juanpillo10]

It is also interesting to mention all the problems that Pablo Escobar's hippos are causing a lot of trouble in Colombia. They are spreading fast and the government wants to find them all and sterilize or sell them, but I doubt there is enough personnel or funds for that kind of project

[@user-cx1pb4bf9j]

Maybe introduce to Italy and Britain some of the US South's squirrel recipes. I am sure that the Italian fashion designers could design some fashions that include squirrel hide and fur.

[@meemurthelemur4811]

Reminds me of the time a bunch of activists went into a pet store and bought all of their goldfish. This was in LA, so they went to the beach to "set them free." Oh, they were free, alright. They would never have another care in the world.🤦🏻‍♀️

[@samsonsoturian6013]

Goldfish don't like saltwater or something?

[@meemurthelemur4811]

@@samsonsoturian6013 goldfish are freshwater fish. They can't live in saltwater. It's literally poison to them.

[@hallooos7585]

Lmao they just committed a mass genocide and torture against the poor gold fish they should be charged for animal abuse cause salt water is toxic for goldfish

[@meemurthelemur4811]

@@samsonsoturian6013 goldfish are freshwater fish, saltwater is toxic to them.

[@meemurthelemur4811]

@@hallooos7585 iirc they were eventually charged for animal cruelty. They really had no defense since they recorded the whole thing.

[@grayfoxart2268]

I think there should be a law to arrest animal activists that did harm.

[@AdibAkmal-ub6cc]

​@LisaHarrison-et9kp oh shut up Lisa. Who the hell come up with that name anyway ? Sounds like one of those characters from one-off family guy gag.

[@Deathtizity]

@LisaHarrison-et9kp ok karen

[@nibbledpanda1519]

@LisaHarrison-et9kpShaddup

[@raeann445]

@LisaHarrison-et9kp nobody cares about what you said, shut up 🗿

[@John_1-1_in_Japanese]

It IS illegal. Laws just aren't enforced because they're part of Western Red Guard, they're revolutionaries fighting to overthrow the culture & customs of nations even if they're midwits who don't know what they're doing. In other words, why arrest useful idiots.

[@Aliandrin]

I was banned from a cat site because I said that the cats in Australia are not pets and need to go for the good of the native wildlife.

[@pestfishingadventures-ne6tq]

Thank you for such a concise presentation.

[@nimmy56]

I like how one dude randomly buying a bag of crustaceans ends up spreading an invasive species through a major portion of a continent

[@amtho8015]

Why I feel it should be made into law that anyone selling live invasive flora/fauna needs to clearly mark the fact it is invasive (for the given region) for customers to see. The fact this isn’t already law is wild to me.

[@kurisueru]

@@amtho8015 probably because it wouldn't stop anyone from releasing it into the local ecosystem any more than warning labels on cigarettes stop people from smoking.

[@kurisueru]

IKR? And millions of dollars spent on damage control, while he and his cohorts were merely fined $20K each.

[@amtho8015]

@@kurisueru Not quite the same comparison. Releasing invasives isn’t addictive like cigarettes are. Education is also always important. I have a hard time imagining how it will make the situation worse (at least how it could do more harm than it does good).

[@AlbuquerqueBandit]

Yeah. Definitely not an activist, definitely not a vegan. Us activists don't purchase animals, because it financially supports the industry of breeding those animals. So, the whole video was about a non-vegan non-activist, with a title blaming us. Pretty crafty!

[@BrytaPlanka]

Feed the activists to the polar bears that have problems finding enough food. Win-win situation!

[@davidsellers3639]

🎯💯

[@yeseniavanessarusso4029]

@LisaHarrison-et9kpthe polar bears ain’t gonna spare you bro

[@CheshireDCat]

​@@yeseniavanessarusso4029 Polar bears don't want a dumbass acting high and mighty 😂

[@Xuphilo_CHSM]

Probably not gonna work but it’s still funny

[@Leo_Pard_A4]

​@LisaHarrison-et9kp Pro tip: Don't write comments whilst sitting in close proximity to a mirror.

[@channell11]

Being an "activist" most of the time means you're bereft of reason, logic, and good sense. The activist class is fueled primarily by emotion and outrage.

[@PuchimonExtreme]

When someone wins, someone else loses. This is an undeniable fact of life.

[@Link2000o]

Yeah but the diffrence is one was don't by nature and one was the mistakes of man kind that's like justifying climate change

[@750triton]

perhaps activists should be sentenced to clearing up the mess they created

[@igormalusevic]

You take the word from my mouth! Absolutely aagree with you.

[@ddhqj2023]

Same for you then. GHG emissions are hurting the planet and our ability to survive......Are you Canadian? Have you protested the carbon tax? Your choices include meat and dairy at every meal (my guess is you aren't a vegan), you drive an ICE vehicle, you have motorized toys in your garage, you go on long holidays, maybe by plane or cruise ships and Amazon is a regular feature at your door.

[@DavidBostock-ti2fv]

"activists" AND THEIR PROCESS ABUSING LAWYERS MAKING BANK OFF THEIR CRIMINAL LYING MALARKEY.

[@DaevorTheDevoted]

@@ddhqj2023 lol?

[@TacoBurgalur]

@@ddhqj2023in that case my friend how do you feel about the mines in Africa that are being operated by CHILDREN for that oh so precious lithium for your Tesla.

[@InsaneHunter01]

Any animal activist who tries to protect invasive species should pay 10,000 a year, if they try to block scientists for removing invasive ones for each year it's held up in court. Then pay the court and legal fees tied to stopping the removal of invasive species.

[@amilee7580]

They should be held accountable

[@stvrob6320]

Its a good thing you're not in charge with that attitude.

[@nickcoppard5335]

Could this ideology be applied to human invasive species ?

[@jessoliver2955]

@@nickcoppard5335needs to be in America right about now

[@jessoliver2955]

@LisaHarrison-et9kpbeing clueless doesn’t give a person immunity from legal consequences

[@johnphillips4776]

Conservation of nature and native animals > aNiMaL rIgHtS

[@Natej3ds]

Way to go, animal rights activists... you put more species into the endangered list than any big corporation has ever done...

[@BloodMarket]

Animal rights activists not knowing anything about the ecosystem they are trying to save is just insane to think about. Like they trying to make themselves look good vs actually caring.

[@AlbuquerqueBandit]

If you watched the video, you'd discover the actual invasive species problems were caused by non-activists 1) the guy who bought crayfish as pets and flushed them down the toilet when he was tired of them 2) rich opulent people buying foreign birds and introducing them to the environment as a status symbol

[@snowmiaow]

Having worked with them, they care but seem delusional.

[@olegkupran5284]

Daily reminder: If you have a pet goldfish, DO NOT ever let them in the wild.

[@Stumme-40203]

Sorry, but Mr. Fluffy the Goldfish is not going down the toilet!

[@Link2000o]

The crazy part is they get huge if you release them and they impact the envierment so bad

[@Aliandrin]

I believe this about carnival goldfish but not fantails. The fantails can barely move.

[@brownmonkey86]

I have the same bone to pick with non native invasive plant species!!! What a nightmare

[@castlecrasher9]

I personally believe protests should be silenced if they leave a negative impact.

[@John_Conner222]

So basically we need a class action suite against these activist groups. They are responsible so they should pay for the damages. Its called Accountability.

[@Runningscared189]

I wonder if the same animal rights activists ever realise the incredible harm they’ve done? Shame on you.

[@user-ei2lm6us2e]

too self righteous

[@MC-nb6jx]

My guess is no 🤬🤬

[@timmholl9238]

Narcissism is their full-strength defense against shame.

[@blackpalacemusic]

I wonder if people realize the harm they cause in branding all "animal rights activists" as the same. 😂

[@ddhqj2023]

Do you realize how much damage you do to the environment every time you sit down to a meal? The steak, the burger, the ice cream from cow's milk.....? 14% of global GHG emissions and dead wildlife, lost forests. Because of your choices 3x a day.

[@catrinastars]

And what did we learn to day class?: That PETA ruins everything...

[@steverichter9825]

The lobster story...unbelievable that they didn't even think at all when they released them. The activists should be forced to meet them in their habitat as punishment.

[@SilverSerenity520]

There was Mexican guy working at a horse ranch when I first met my wife. Referred to a swan saying, "I no like "cobra chicken""

[@jettysfuneral]

lmaooo accurate af

[@cctakedown333]

I'll adopt this phrase now. Damn cobra chickens are annoying as hell. Territorial as well. Shit everywhere, block traffic, hiss and attack you if you walk by them and people still say "majestic"... Majestic my ass... The thing is literally rolling in it's own shit. And every year there's more of em

[@Meerkat17]

Yup. Adding this to my vocabulary. Absolutely golden. 😂😂😂

[@yowaikemen]

Rights activists should have education on the topic. Biology and ecoscience should be mandatory to this activism. Emotion doesn't revert ecosystem destruction.

[@johnnieduke95]

If they breed so quickly maybe promote catching them and giving them to poor communities as a food source? A year or 2 of commercialy catching them to give to people in need might decimate the population if not all the way probably pretty close. We decimate other species quickly if it was tied to saving ecosystems while also feeding people in need indefinitely I think it'd catch on enough to at least give the other wildlife a better chance

[@capvux]

0:22 As soon as i saw u take cup of coffee i realised watop havent seen in while and knew this vid will be good😊

[@fenfire3824]

I am glad i have so many red squirrels in my garden. They are super cute.

[@BestPrezz]

"If you're driven by emotions, you probably do more bad than good" Amen

[@AlbuquerqueBandit]

Yep, don't flush your pets down the toilet, and don't use animals as decorations. That causes invasive species issues. Those were not caused by activists.

[@rogersmith5167]

I was fishing once and there was a dolphin in the bay that came to within an arms length of my boat, along came Eco Warrior and Eco warrior ess (on a jet-ski) and yellow hi-vis and told me not to follow the dolphin because the noise of my outbord affects its hearing and balance, I pointed out that my engine was not in the water unlike the turbine in your jet ski howling at up to 6 thousand revs.

[@iamthemoss]

Activists, when your feelings win over logic and reason.

[@studleydewrite2942]

Now we have a president and his entire administration made up of squirrels. It's not good.

[@thecookiemeister5374]

Doesnt doing this type of thing count as Eco-terrorism? Can they be charged for that?

[@edv7094]

Sue the animal Rights group for the destruction caused by their actions factoring in the coming centuries of destruction caused by the invasive creatures.

[@SandGentleman]

Classic example of empathy vs compassion. Empathy = 'Think of the children!' mindset. Compassion = 'How can we do our best to help?' mindset.

[@KristopherPrime]

if you ask me, thats one of the distinctions between conservative-minded individuals vs liberal-minded individuals. liberals (especially the woke leftists) have too much empathy but rarely think things through. by comparison, conservatives usually care but also stop and think about the long term.

[@tarot3078]

@@KristopherPrimeThere have been study showing that conservatives are on average more emotional and less educated. But yes clearly your side of the isle is the enlightened one because reason.

[@BearCore667]

Empathy is considering the perspective and feelings of others. Not what you described

[@SandGentleman]

@@BearCore667 No, empathy is the *ability* to understand the feelings or perspective of others. It doesn't always translate correctly into comprehending the best way to help.

[@KristopherPrime]

@@tarot3078 they DO tend to be less emotional and more educated. more accurately: streetsmart vs booksmart. conservatives usually see how the world actually works, not how they WANT it to work. an example is the gender ideology being pushed as facts rather than the delusion that it is.

[@Rose.Of.Hizaki]

As a avid fisherman in the UK. The fact that the law only permits people catching invasive crayfish by line and hook (multi-hook rigs are also illegal...) instead of a crayfish trap basically means the population is never dealt with in a more efficient way.... Youre going to be in there for a long long day trying to catch crayfish using a fishing rod. I understand that they made the law because they dont want native fish species being harmed in the process. But I counter that by saying a lot of the waterways in my local area have been cleaned out be people who arrive in this country illegally who fish in the rivers/canals for their dinner.... And there are a lot more of these people arriving every day then there are fish in these rivers.

[@MargaretFinnell]

That is sad. Why a simple well tended trap would nab you a fine dinner but some one is sure that you would miss use it.

[@DaiMie]

Do you guys not eat crawfish?

[@Rose.Of.Hizaki]

@@DaiMie You dont want to eat these ones trust me. A lot of our rivers and canals are so polluted with untreated/raw sewage constantly being dumped in there by sewage treatment plants who are trying to save a buck.

[@MargaretFinnell]

@@DaiMie Some people are just silly. Which leaves more for the rest of us who know how to cook good nourishing food. And free is even better!!!

[@DaiMie]

@@Rose.Of.Hizaki ......pretty sure Louisiana is even worse. I'll take my chances.

[@SinKieran]

So that's why there's always so many Mirelurks around in Fallout series.

[@JexMugen]

At this point i am convinced that these activists consider humans as the only invasive species.

[@valuevinyl110]

As a person who lives in Maine... and our biggest export is Lobsters... I can confirm that they do not only live in warm water.. and our weather is colder than in Dublin...

[@hallooos7585]

There are different lobsters species the one he was talking about is probably adapted to a tropical environment

[@mugnuz]

@@hallooos7585 still horribly researched... lobsters were poor peoples food in london before it became posh...

[@Th3_Gael]

​@@mugnuzthat was oysters

[@441rider]

@@Th3_Gael Lobsters dude in New Foundland Canada the poor eat them by the pound. It is the greedy middlemen and gov that makes it cost so much.

[@Th3_Gael]

@@441rider it's the same where I live, crabs too. But that person said London, londoners ate oysters from the Thames, not lobster

[@RX782GP03]

They only wanted to protect the animals for their own feelings, nothing else. They should be held responsible.

[@joxyjoxyjoxy1]

They should be required to take them into their own homes.

[@mocifus13]

I think they want to protect their feelings through the animals. Sounds funny but i don’t think they truly care about the animals. They just project their feelings onto the animals, and therefore, they have to protect the animals. Like munchausen by proxy

[@BlastoTheHanaar]

Anyone that introduces or releases an invasive species to a place it isn't meant to be, should be named and shamed. Then charged for environmental damage.

[@boztec7187]

A few years ago, a group of these idiots, released several hundred mink into the British countryside. They promptly ate every bit of wildlife, they could eat within a radius of 20miles. 🙄

[@janetestherina7169]

and when you tell them that the invasive species need to be culled, they got mad and call you a genocider and claimed that humans caused more extinction... sigh...

[@michaelshrader5139]

Let me remind you, that Homo-Sapiens are also an "invasive species". Come up with a better solution than killing, and maybe you would get a whole lot more support and less attempts at blocking! And frankly yes, WE have caused more species to go extinct all over this planet than any other single species ever has. Don't believe me? Ask a Neanderthal, if you can find one. Just saying. 😕

[@JD-Defenders]

They did and they do.

[@justmrcrow]

​@@JD-DefendersThen do something about it... Oh wait, you can't. So instead I guess we'll just save invasive species, that will certainly help.

[@JD-Defenders]

@@justmrcrow I have spent my whole life working in service of animals. I have literally saved hundreds of animals be it cats, dogs, birds and so on. What have YOU done, mouth?

[@Abdega]

“And inactions on these animals are going to cause EVEN MORE extinctions!” But they won’t listen

[@trailsendfarm141]

And sadly, NO ONE wants to put the BLAME where it belonged. That too needs to STOP. Let the ones responsible PAY and Be exposed for how DANGERSOUS they are today.

[@fackynaxicht8603]

Are you sure that you used proper amount of capitals? I think you should wrote the whole thing in capitals, whaddaya mean?

[@alexmartin6561]

I despise ignorant animals rights activists.

[@jazzip]

Grey squirrel: coloniser squirrel 😂

[@fackynaxicht8603]

They are ukrainians of animal empire

[@RPSchonherr]

We need to change our diet to gray squirrels, Crayfish, swans and whatever else like this.

[@user-li2tw4og2f]

We already do eat crayfish. Well only in North America I guess

[@RPSchonherr]

@@user-li2tw4og2f I know, yummy. I heard Lionfish are delish too.

[@erikjrn4080]

@@user-li2tw4og2f We used to eat crayfish in Europe, too. Specifically astacus astacus, aka noble crayfish. Unfortunately, due to a virus carried by the North American signal crayfish, the noble crayfish is now a threatened species, and fishing is either restricted or banned. So, why not eat the signal crayfish? Well, the thing is, it tastes like shit, by comparison. You can't pass it off as a delicacy in Europe.

[@michaelshrader5139]

@@erikjrn4080 And yet people in Louisiana and Texas just love the darned things! Maybe we season them better? IDK, I can't eat them they cause me intense stomach pain (probably an allergy). 😕How many times in Human history has a group of Humans with a "common" virus caused massive deaths in another group of Humans they just "discovered" who had never been exposed to that virus before? Food for thought, friends.

[@adamwu4565]

Humans actually have eaten all of these species at various times and places, and in fact still do. Given the ubquity of humans in the Earth's terrestrial ecosystems these days, species that aren't good at thriving despite humans coming along regularly and killing some of them for various reasons, aren't the ones that become invasive. And then of course, we have the example of the absolute tragic shit-show that was Maoist China's "Four Evils" campaign, which was a huge public campaign to get the people to work together to exterminate four identified pests on a national scale (those being mosquitos, flies, rats and sparrows). The mosquitos and flies, being short lived rapidly reproducing insects, more or less just laughed at the puny humans' attempts to limit their numbers, while the rats just went "meh, we've seen this before, we can live with this." The sparrows, however, proved quite vulnerable and were decimated. Which in turned allowed the population of one of their favorite prey species to explode. What prey species, you ask? Locusts. The resulting crop collapse and famine resulted in an estimated death toll of close to 30 million people. Which of course completely overshadowed the modest reduction in insect born diseases that the campaign did achieve, and was its only notable success.

[@flukeman022]

Australia has got it right with their strict laws even though they have numerous invasive species.

[@kalkhalinzhui1753]

They're so strict, they banned a music album because it contained seeds that you're supposed to plant as part of the album's message and theme.

[@flukeman022]

@@kalkhalinzhui1753 Do you know the name of the music album?

[@kalkhalinzhui1753]

@@flukeman022 Katy Perry's Prism music album. It had a seed bag that was listed by Australia as a biohazard.

[@starhammer5247]

If you speak of Cane Toads near an Australian, you can visibly see their blood pressure rise.

[@flukeman022]

@kalkhalinzhui1753 thank you very much.

[@gazzas123]

We have this problem in Australia. Horses were released in the fragile environment and activativs are trying to stop the culling of them. They are destroying the native plants that are required for local animals.

[@beachlife1498]

I’ve seen the gray squirrel issue in my neighborhood. Popped up about 15 years ago. We had nothing but red squirrels. And then suddenly these larger gray squirrels showed up. In about two years we didn’t see red squirrels anymore but now we’ve started to get a different Squirrel. I think it’s a mixture of the gray and the red. It has gray fur, but a red undercoat.

[@AlbuquerqueBandit]

Yeah. the thing is, the grey squirrel problem was introduced in the 1800s, by regular people like you who thought they looked cool and would be a nice status symbol to have. Like the non-activist dude who had crayfish as pets, in this video, and released them when he was tired of taking care of them. Or the rich people who introduced swans. Most of these issues in the video were not caused by activists. Just regular people like you.

[@redrovaeden5143]

Blind Heroism Another example of "either die a hero or live long enough to become a villian".

[@Mike-tg7dj]

Feral pigs are one of the reasons you can't drink directly from the streams anywhere on the Appalachian trail because the pigs wallow in the streams damaging the environment.

[@michaelhanson7678]

No one stop us from expanding

[@IdeologieUK]

I’ve lived in four southern counties in the last 15 years and I have not seen one single red squirrel. Not one!