Hacker News Reader

Perhaps it's only because we wiped them out so many places that we understand in the slightest the ecological role they play

$1.2 Million worth of wetland restoration and years of ecological revue skipped https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-engineered_dam_in_the_C...

I think if we hadn't we would've figured it out anyway. Someone would have found them interesting enough to study.

You think nobody found them interesting enough to study when they were being made into hats?

It's hard to raise the alarm about a harm that has not yet come to pass