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We don't need collaborative efforts to conserve what we are losing, we simply need humans to behave better and to respect the environment.

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Have you been to a Walmart or mall? Even if we used that money to pay people to be better, they wouldn't.

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Evidently we do need that because they wont.

Well, thats a small start I suppose.

Multiply that by 10 and maybe it will be a good start.

That a lot of words being used to describe collaborative efforts to conserve what we are loosing.

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Humans are a virus with shoes they aren’t gonna start to respect shit.

Mhm and how might we restore what's gone? Tell people to be better? Will that bring back the habitats quicker? I don't think so

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You could spend $70MM in one town and still have massive problems.

See: superfund

And we're still making these messes faster than we're cleaning them up

I think we are too greedy and ignorant as a species to save ourselves. We will continue killing the earth and its inhabitants as well as ourselves until it is too late to stop

And how many billions have we spent on supporting a war? Disgusting

Just build schools on top, no one will know.

"Well, it's a fairly good first step," and then the second step never comes. Feel like I've seen this one before. On about a hundred different issues.

How many billions would you spend to prevent a war?

Every single comment in this thread is negative. Isn't this r/upliftingnews? I thought negative comments get removed/banned.

Yup. Sadly.

So said species are going extinct then? 😮‍💨

This is nothing

You are correct but maybe that just shows this was posted in the wrong sub. Is it uplifting? Its an incredibly small amount to be used nationally to do something we should be prioritizing but we are still treating it like it's not at a critical point. It's distressing to constantly be reminded how quickly life on this planet is going extinct so even an article like this that seems positive really isn't. It's like saying a raped child finally got the abortion she needed... I mean that's great but is it uplifting that any of that happened the way it did? We might want to raise the bar on what uplifting means, maybe not require a horrible event to require "good".

Because 67 million is an insignificant amount for protecting nature in a time where nature is collapsing.

It's true that this is not enough, but it's a good start. If you think more should be done then tell your Senators and Representative to support the Recovering America's Wildlife Act

The problem is that it's not uplifting to report on a government spending a ton of money on "conserving" specific species when the entire planet's ecology is collapsing around our ears. We likely have less than a century left of this planet before billions of people die due to the collapse of our food sources and water supplies. Spending $70m on trying to saves the newts isn't uplifting in the face of that knowledge, so it really shouldn't be on this sub.

Some Universities get more than this yearly for simply being affiliated with a Conference

So while that’s good

One University compared to an entire state and the state is using it to help stop species extinction

Drop of water in the ocean

>less than a century left of this planet before billions of people die due to the collapse of our food sources and water supplies

My brother in Jeebus, we probably have until 2030 before global crop failure starts, with drought being the primary issue, followed by heat and wildfire.

Oh, for sure. I'm just usually conservative about time frames when I'm talking about it so that people are more likely to listen. People just shut down and brush it off as conspiracy if you start throwing around dates that are only a few years away. The collapse of the crab populations in Alaska is one of the first in what will be a cascade of collapses, and it's happening now, forget even 7 years out.