Harmful or Beneficial? Animals with a Bad Reputation
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Harmful or Beneficial? Animals with a Bad Reputation
19.99 €
The comic strip refutes ancient but unfair ideas about many animals. Are wolves and foxes, bears and tigers, as well as snakes, spiders and biting insects really that harmful? And why do they have such a bad reputation?
Gils Macagneau explains to us what biologists and conservationists have long known. Yes, there are dangerous animals. Problematic ones - yes. But harmful ones - no! Each biological species, each living organism plays its own ecological role. And these well-oiled natural mechanisms work from century to century... Until some extraordinary event occurs that disrupts the ecological balance.
In the last few thousand years, man has been exterminating entire species of animals, cutting down forests, plowing up the steppe, changing the course of rivers, causing animals to die out, deprived of habitats. He introduces invasive species of animals and plants that have arrived from afar and threaten local ecosystems. The ecological reputation of our species, Homo sapiens, depends on how we solve these and other environmental problems. We really don't want this reputation to be bad.
Gils Macagneau explains to us what biologists and conservationists have long known. Yes, there are dangerous animals. Problematic ones - yes. But harmful ones - no! Each biological species, each living organism plays its own ecological role. And these well-oiled natural mechanisms work from century to century... Until some extraordinary event occurs that disrupts the ecological balance.
In the last few thousand years, man has been exterminating entire species of animals, cutting down forests, plowing up the steppe, changing the course of rivers, causing animals to die out, deprived of habitats. He introduces invasive species of animals and plants that have arrived from afar and threaten local ecosystems. The ecological reputation of our species, Homo sapiens, depends on how we solve these and other environmental problems. We really don't want this reputation to be bad.
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