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Comment by dntbnmpls | Hacker News Reader

Everyone is endangering animals in other countries. And when it comes to preserving their own wild animals, china is much better at it than europe who wiped out pretty much all their major fauna. The US isn't much better since we pretty much wiped out most of our native wild life.

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China came first in the extinction of marine mammals with Baiji. US is figthing hard in a close position for the second place, with Chinese help.

There is not anymore "our" animals and "your" animals. Pangolin is not a Chinese animal, neither Totoba.

The chinese and their idiotic traditional 'medicine' are endangering so many animals that it's not even close. They're actively encouraging poaching.

Actually, their traditional medicine probably preserves those wild animals because the chinese need them.

Whereas in the US, we simply exterminated most of the animals because they were considered a nuisance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bison_skull_pile_edit.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon

There are no more wolverines in the wolverine state. There are no california bears in california. And of course we almost wiped out the american bald eagle.

If china wants to catch up to the US or Europe, they had to do a lot more exterminating.

Sure, if you want to call eradication by brutish poaching 'preserving' then go ahead. I call it what it is.

Also, this whataboutism doesn't help anyone.

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