https://planetsave.com/articles/salamanders-threatened-extinction-via-emerging-disease-spread-wildlife-trade/ Science, Animals, Planet Earth, & More Fri, 31 Oct 2014 23:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://planetsave.com/articles/salamanders-threatened-extinction-via-emerging-disease-spread-wildlife-trade/#comment-22201 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 23:07:00 +0000 http://planetsave.com/?p=43145#comment-22201 That’s a red eft (newt) in your picture, not a salamander.

]]> https://planetsave.com/articles/salamanders-threatened-extinction-via-emerging-disease-spread-wildlife-trade/#comment-22200 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:54:00 +0000 http://planetsave.com/?p=43145#comment-22200 This would be an easy fix in a better world. Stop importing foreign amphibians. But I haven’t heard a politician say a word about it. Like the buffalo and passenger pigeon, it will be all but over before it becomes fashionable for politicians to talk about it. More and more I see our world resembling a handcart headed at breakneck speed downhill. And a generation that could have done something – whether it would help or not, I don’t know – is locked in a tech bubble while the world around them gives signs of bursting. For the planet it smells like Europe in the 30’s, messed up. And those who ignore the obvious do so at their peril.

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