[true_religion]

Europe's lack of biodiversity comparative to other continents hasn't caused an ecological collapse yet. Ecosystems are not that fragile, multiple species occupy the same niche and are only termed different because we human beings have decided to call them so.

For instance, a tiny difference in a stripe pattern and breeding zones is enough for us to call two different groups of voles, a difference in species. Yet, all the wildly varied dogs in the world are still considered one species.

Are we really losing genetic diversity when one vole species becomes extinct? Perhaps, the difference is merely incidental, and the genes for the different stripe pattern are contained in all vole sub-groups, and they are truly a single species.

[rickycook]

huskies aren’t going extinct any time soon, and we do have plenty of biodiversity issues with dogs. inbreeding of terriers and such for dog shows is a huge problem that has pretty much destroyed entire breeds, and many people are working to fix it