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RE: The World's Most Endangered Vertebrate: The Devil's Hole Pupfish
They're quite cute. This pisses me off.
Three drunken tourists killed at least one pupfish, smashed a number of eggs, and damaged the shelf in April 2016.
It's good they're getting felony charges, hopefully, it's quite a bit of money and community service to help pick up litter in nature.
We absolutely should try to help any species (that isn't like a harmful bacteria/virus/etc that will kill us all) that is struggling with population, especially if humans are one of the main reasons for their struggle.
The graph below seems to show an increase in their population, hopefully, it will stay rising until it stabilizes itself.
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I don't think this chart includes the captive population, which gives us even more reason to be optimistic!
Yeah, I think it's strictly wild population.