Chinese Paddlefish.... Is it really doomed?

[uting]

extinction by another species due to competition for resources , seems pretty natural to me.

i think there gone for good, unless there is a undiscovered location where a population of them is alive.

i doubt people would take the initiative to clone them, unless a billionaire has a passion for them and would finance it. that is assuming you could find a living one, and its female.

arghh this post annoys me.... can't anybody understand that this species was made CR or possibly extinct by the Three gorges dam hich cut of its migration routes.

 

[sostoudt]

arghh this post annoys me.... can't anybody understand that this species was made CR or possibly extinct by the Three gorges dam hich cut of its migration routes.

lol it was just viewing it by another angle or possibly just the troll in me.

"another species" was the human species, and the resource was the river. ie we out competed the fish for the resource.

 

[mushroomsoup]

arghh this post annoys me.... can't anybody understand that this species was made CR or possibly extinct by the Three gorges dam hich cut of its migration routes.

its called natural selection, fair enough it could've been avoided but that would mean people living down stream would be flooded and die during torrential rains. One species adapted and thrived....the other didn't.

 

[likestofish]

its called natural selection, fair enough it could've been avoided but that would mean people living down stream would be flooded and die during torrential rains. One species adapted and thrived....the other didn't.

the three gorges dam also displaced thousands destroyed thousand year old towns and temples. And now is causing seismic actvity around the area.

 

[mushroomsoup]

its still natural selection...and if your right then nature wont be selecting the people living down stream for much longer lol

 

[Here Fishy Fishy]

its called natural selection, fair enough it could've been avoided but that would mean people living down stream would be flooded and die during torrential rains. One species adapted and thrived....the other didn't.

Everyone always talks about this situation as if the Humans are winning and these other species have lost. They say that the Humans have out competed them and it is natural selection therefore it's ok. But what people fail to realize is that as we cause all these other species to go extinct we are essentially decreasing our biodiversity. Decreased biodiversity leads to a less stable ecosystem and weak ecosystems are more likely to collapse. This is the same ecosystem that we all live in and one day, if we keep it up, it will come back and bite us in the butt.​

 

[mushroomsoup]

Everyone always talks about this situation as if the Humans are winning and these other species have lost. They say that the Humans have out competed them and it is natural selection therefore it's ok. But what people fail to realize is that as we cause all these other species to go extinct we are essentially decreasing our biodiversity. Decreased biodiversity leads to a less stable ecosystem and weak ecosystems are more likely to collapse. This is the same ecosystem that we all live in and one day, if we keep it up, it will come back and bite us in the butt.​

that is agreeable. when that happens and humanity is erased. then its natural selection. im not being an idiot or anything i was just trying to say that every species gets their turn to thrive. One day all land will probably go under water...then the fishes will survive haha

 

[Here Fishy Fishy]

that is agreeable. when that happens and humanity is erased. then its natural selection. im not being an idiot or anything i was just trying to say that every species gets their turn to thrive. One day all land will probably go under water...then the fishes will survive haha

That is true too. The part that really gets to me is that Humans are smarter than that. And most of all, now I can't own one of those cool paddle fish or any other endangered species because it depletes the natural population. When the real reason is not collection for personal enjoyment but loss of habitat.

 

[Allan01230]

That is true too. The part that really gets to me is that Humans are smarter than that. And most of all, now I can't own one of those cool paddle fish or any other endangered species because it depletes the natural population. When the real reason is not collection for personal enjoyment but loss of habitat.

Exactly my thoughts. Same bs that is going on in Brazil with the plecos. Since when the Brazilian government gives a damn about a species going excinct.

 

[Bottomfeeder]

I think most of the animals, especially the aquatic ones, that are considered extinct, are...like...not really extinct. It's not exactly hard for a fish with infinate water space to go unnoticed.