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Do you think it's only a matter of time before the Vaquita is extinct? To me I'd say yes. Sometimes I do feel like humans are the greediest species and how we lost animals like passenger pigeons, great auks, the Labrador duck, and tons more that we've driven to extinction because of human activities. It's also sad that many animals without help will be as dead as a dinosaur. Sometimes when I think of saving species and their habitats I think of a line from the 1972 Lorax TV Special of "They say I'm old fashioned and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!" It's just no doubt in my mind of the Vaquita becoming extinct.

I haven't been on here for quite some time now but I very much approve of the first one as well!

You may be seeing some older files posting as new ones even tho' they are not new files. I am resuming the process of trying to reclaim more site space by reducing the size of the screenshots where I can. If the screenshot is in .png format, I save it also in .jpg format. Whichever takes up the least space is the one that will be used in the download listing. It may get messy but please just bear with me! Thanks!!

With mentioning the Lorax TV special from 1972 earlier I think that it works very well of what's happening right now of "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not" and that is a very powerful message and moral. Just another fact is that The Lorax was actually Dr. Seuss himself's favorite of the books he wrote and it's my favorite Dr. Seuss story too. Even animals we commonly see now even they are at risk of extinction like with how at one time the Passenger Pigeon was the most abundant bird in North America and billions were killed every year for food, protecting crops, and controlling their huge population and back in the 1700s and 1800s they thought there we so many that they would never go extinct; again The Onceler from The Lorax that there were so many truffula trees that he'd wouldn't run out of them to make thneeds but The Onceler eventually did. With the passenger pigeon and most gamebirds are relatively slow breeder compared to passerine birds. Let's also not forget about besides overhunting we should also not forget about overfishing and many of the species of we see in supermarkets and restaurants are listed as Near-threatened or under. When I wittness trees getting cut down to make rooms for new establishments, I sometimes wish that The Lorax existed in real life.

As a vegan, I would not want the survival effort to be for food or hunting, but I do understand what you are saying Fern. The planet is not doing very well and I honestly don't think now is the time to start a revival effort of any extinct animal; better to save those projects for a hopefully better time in the future. I wish that the very rich individuals and corporations could commit more to preserving the endangered animals that are still hanging on. I've been reading about some very exciting research and methodology to rescue the oceans and cool off the rising temps. It may just be pipe dreams, but I'm holding on to hope. But yeah, humans, in my opinion, are the worst species.