Rare New Zealand grasshopper loses ground to cows
"An endangered grasshopper found only in the Mackenzie Basin is under threat from dairying.
Changes to the natural habitat of the Brachaspis robustus grasshopper have caused the population to decrease, according to Department of Conservation invertebrate ecologist Warren Chinn.
The grasshopper is is not found anywhere else in the world."
It's the same old story. Bit by bit, plant by plant, creature by creature, habitat by habitat, the natural world is being destroyed and supplanted by industry such as dairying.
Death by a thousand cuts.
Worth making a noise about, or does that just make you a 'snail-loving tree-hugger'?
Yes and yes.
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