For all the advancements and achievements our species has accomplished perhaps our biggest limitation is our inability to live in cooexistance with nature. I am in some ways as guilty as any. We are able to shape our world to meet our needs but we are unable or unwilling to preserve nature. In our drive for advancement and "progress" we have driven multiple species to extinction and others to the very brink of that same fate. Upon realizing our transgressions we have in some cases tried to preserve these species we almost eradicated by reintroducing them to areas they used to inhabbit before humans encroached on their land. Perhaps the most famous example of this is the reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowston National Park. After all the hard work that has been done to resore this majestic species their fate has been left in the hands of the very groups that were responsible for their exterpation in the first place. I do not understand why this path has beechosen for the wolf. I also don't understand how their fate can be left in the hands of those that have the most to gain from their destruction.
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