Recovery of European Species Contradicts Doomsday Narrative
As a young graduate student, I was thrilled to have my first hands-on experience in conservation on Portugal’s pristine grassland steppe, a paradise for avian life. It was during this visit that I came to understand the critical role of conservationists and the factors most affecting wildlife populations across the globe. A major learning for me was that the cause of population collapse among major species is over-hunting and not climate change, the latter being the popular media’s favorite, though fabricated, bogeyman.