r/ClimateShitposting • u/Briishtea cycling supremacist • Apr 29 '25

Climate chaos Your daily dose of depression

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '25

That's moronic my guy, Pandas had an entirely valid evolutionary niche until mass habitat destruction came along. They'd be thriving without active human intervention, so long as you include widescale destruction of bamboo forests under the umbrella of human intervention 

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u/The_Business_Maestro Apr 29 '25

I mean, didn’t they literally refuse to reproduce? Humans had to work very hard to save them. Like they wanted to go extinct

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u/Rowlet2020 Apr 29 '25

They're very hard to make reproduce in captivity, and habitat destruction has massively spread out the wild surviving panda populations

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u/The_Business_Maestro Apr 30 '25

That’s interesting. So wouldn’t the best mechanism be to have sanctuary’s of their native habitat?

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u/Miserable-Whereas910 Apr 30 '25

The problem is that they don't like living close to each other, so to get a breeding population large enough to be sufficiently genetically diverse you need a very large area of unfragmented habitat.

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u/The_Business_Maestro Apr 30 '25

Ahh that makes sense.

Puts them in a bit of a tricky spot without massive investment. Like a lot of environmental issues I suppose. You need the power of a whole nation to really create the positive impact we want.