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What's the most exciting development happening in your field of work/study at the moment? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by christophski@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What's something happening in your field of work or study that you think could really change things in the future?

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[–] TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Attempts to bring lynx back to Scotland, it’ll stabilise the ecosystem for the first time since the Middle Ages

[–] christophski@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very cool, what is meant by having a stable ecosystem?

[–] TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

At the moment the deer population has to be controlled by humans because otherwise they’ll completely destroy entire forests, when lynx are introduced they’ll prey on the deer so humans don’t have to and the forests can recover.