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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.

Environmental amnesia: How we can't even remember the lost biodiversity of yore

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