Ed
Tokyo Japan
>From: Christopher Scharpf <ichthos_at_charm.net>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
>Subject: NANFA-- extinctions
>Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 20:03:00 -0400
>
> > Seriously though, I do believe some of the creatures near
> > extinction now are just going there way.
>
>This isn't necessarily so. I just read a book called *The Endangered
>Species
>Act: History, Conservation, Biology, and Public Policy* by Brian Czech and
>Paul R. Krausman (2001, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press). The authors studied the
>cause of endangerment for 844 federally listed species and found that only
>*one* species -- the Florida salt marsh vole -- is endangered naturally
>(due
>to climactic changes). Still, it is prevented from a chance at natural
>recovery by development surrounding its surviving range.
>
> > But to play devils advocate with myself, its possible some of these
> > species have not had a chance yet to become common.
>
>Where is it written than a species' evolutionary objective is to be common?
>
>You raise a great question re: the whiteline topminnow. Was it going
>extinct, or was it just getting started? Unfortunately, due to man, we'll
>never know the answer. Not only is the species gone, but its own unique
>trajectory in the evolutionary scheme of things.
>
> > I think it would be best to try all options to help these species.
> > This not only includes habitat preservation, but also making these
> > things ( even slimes) more important to more people. That is why I
> > believe in captive husbandry and making these fish more appealling to
> > more people.
>
>Hear, hear! I have an article with the same message in the Nov. issue of
>Tropical Fish Hobbyist.
>
>
>Chris Scharpf
>Baltimore
>
>
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