Image via Wikipedia TV naturalist Chris Packham finds his own credibility at risk of extinction over his comments on panda bears. He argues we should let them become extinct because “extinction is natural”. Saying people care about pandas only because they’re fluffy, and he’s right, most but not all people do, he goes on to tell us that the Yangtze river dolphin “vanished because it was pig-ugly and swam around in a river where no one saw it”. No. It died out for a number of reasons, such as human predation, accidental killing, and because the Yangtze river is notoriously [...]






