“Europe” here really just meaning “hunters and farmers”.

  • kettuli@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Well that’s easy, nature needs the wolf. In Finland, wolves were hunted to extinction some decades ago and ever since the small but vocal hunting community does anything legal and illegal to keep their numbers as low as possible. We have some 300. This has lead to an explosion of white-tailed deer population. The deer are host to ticks, can you imagine how the number of ticks in Finland has exploded?