This is a disaster. What annoys me is when some Westerners complain only about the plight of wildlife in 3rd world countries. They often fail to to realise that their own people have already wiped out most of their wildlife already here in Europe. Some of the remaining nature-reserves in Europe are pathetically small. For example, I regularly go to the Vallees des Merveilles in southeastern France to look at the ancient rock-carvings and, if possible, see some wild animals. But most of the latter are absolutely terrified of humans so it is difficult to see them. What makes things worse is that the French government has an appalling habit of choosing areas for national parks which make it as difficult as possible for the animals to migrate from one wild area to another. For example, the Mercantour national park is mostly just a long, very narrow strip against the Italian border, and the area of greatest size is allowed to be accessed by farmers with sheep and is full of tourists. One only has to look at the example of Czernobyl and Fukushima, where, as soon as humans evacuated the areas almost completely, the wildlife erupted in numbers. The basic point being the sanctity of human life. If that were done away with, the environment could recover.
