How fortunate we are that there was an agricultural/financial justification for getting rid of these things. If only mountain lions in Southern California urban areas were bad for the economy (as opposed to just maiming young children).
> If only mountain lions in Southern California urban areas were bad for the economy (as opposed to just maiming young children).
Fortunately, nobody will try to execute that fart brain, because in 2024 we now that extirpating mountain lions, counterintuitively, will have the result to increase the number of children (and adults) killed on California.
I take it you're from Spain? You might feel differently if you had apex predators prowling around your cities. I don't suggest that we kill mountain lions (except, of course, those that have attacked humans) -- just move them to truly rural areas.
We have wolves and bears here also (and I'm frankly sick of hearing the same dusty tale).
Pumas in USA had killed 28 humans in the last 100 years (Two of this people died by rabies, not by the puma attack). Lets say 3 killed each ten years on average to be safe.
Only in 2021 there was more than 104,000 car accidents against animals in California (on a total of 2,1 million of crashes reported against big animals in USA). Deer are involved on a big part of this accidents.
(Dogs also, but dogs aren't wild animals). Deer not only kill people, also cause a lot of other going broke by healthcare bills as result of the accident. We could safely claim that deer are "a thousand times" more dangerous for Americans than Pumas.
Of course people could still crash against a big predator, but predators are scarce by definition, so the probability is much lower. As pumas and wolves reduce the deer population all the time, we should welcome its presence. The final effect is massively positive toward saving American lives.
A second species of Asian wasp appeared also in Europe near an Amazon warehouse. Extirpated, I hope.
The situation with Vespa velutina looks "stabilized" with a lot of traps set, but they still keep killing people here and there. Sarcozy fucked it royally when they appeared and the government didn't understood the need to allocate resources against them.
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Fortunately, nobody will try to execute that fart brain, because in 2024 we now that extirpating mountain lions, counterintuitively, will have the result to increase the number of children (and adults) killed on California.
Pumas in USA had killed 28 humans in the last 100 years (Two of this people died by rabies, not by the puma attack). Lets say 3 killed each ten years on average to be safe.
Only in 2021 there was more than 104,000 car accidents against animals in California (on a total of 2,1 million of crashes reported against big animals in USA). Deer are involved on a big part of this accidents.
(Dogs also, but dogs aren't wild animals). Deer not only kill people, also cause a lot of other going broke by healthcare bills as result of the accident. We could safely claim that deer are "a thousand times" more dangerous for Americans than Pumas.
Of course people could still crash against a big predator, but predators are scarce by definition, so the probability is much lower. As pumas and wolves reduce the deer population all the time, we should welcome its presence. The final effect is massively positive toward saving American lives.
The situation with Vespa velutina looks "stabilized" with a lot of traps set, but they still keep killing people here and there. Sarcozy fucked it royally when they appeared and the government didn't understood the need to allocate resources against them.