I'm talking about geological time here. Within tens of thousands of years, how many rafts leave South America, into the Caribbean? With animals on board? (Hint: its several times a calendar year.) Would've been the same for Madagascar when the variables were optimal on the mainland. And how long would it take for lemurs to lose interfertility with mainland relatives? Not just a generation or two.
As I saw it, this thread started with a defence of last ditch attempts at saving dead clades walking. Most recently the vaquita, now action is too long overdue to make a difference. Just the other day, people posted threads about how declines in a few British and East Asian birds have been largely ignored by zoos, although conservation zoos were surely able to take pre-emptive action in advance. They didn't though did they?
Yea go back to saving muh wildlife.
Charming as Sealpup undoubtedly is, I think some of what she's doing here, is her having fun at someone else's expense. I wonder what she has personally done for conservation?
Uppities deserve it, and the tone of zoo conservation became uppity. Yet entire clades or taxon groups are still neglected, and things are still left too little, too late, too often. Attitudes surrounding contemporary zoos are bogging them down, and a part of this is the rebranding of zoos as consevation or ecology centers instead of... just zoos. Its not that I oppose captive breeding, its done in a way too misdirected, and unfairly biased toward charismatic megafauna.
Jersey-ification is the English term for all medium sized zoos converging upon the zoo the Durrells founded at Trinity, Jersey - a strong conservation focus, at least in presentation and especially in education departments, fewer large animals and fewer species (pre-Jerseyification collections, are decried as "postage stamp collections").