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I believe this study but it contrasts oddly with my own experience. I have lived for many of my 60+ years in the American West. Species which have made a comeback: wild turkeys, cougar, eagles, rocky mountain sheep, even wolves in some areas. Is this because American patterns of interaction with wildlife are different than elsewhere? Genuinely curious here.

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The article obviously and necessarily omits thousands of pages worth of detail, but I'm pretty sure that if you dug into the scientific findings a disproportionate amount of the decline in vertibrate biodiversity has been in places like Peru, Brazil, Congo, Malaysia -- all the places with jungles and tropical rainforests, which contain a disproportionate amount of the world's terrestrial biodiversity in the first place and which are near-universally under dire threat of being logged into oblivion, cleared for palm plantations, etc.

The USA is not doing fantastic when it comes to conservation, but much of the world is doing far worse.

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