Environmental amnesia: How we can't even remember the lost biodiversity of yore
While we can recall car windshields covered with dead insects after a drive, what do we know about wolves that once roamed the countryside in the Middle Ages, or salmon swimming in the Seine in the 19th century? This gradual forgetting of what was once a teeming natural world prevents us from protecting today's nature.
We haven't written up this one. Le Monde English has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.