Raccoons

Raccoons are thriving and an important part of the urban ecosystem. Unlike their rural cousins, urban raccoons are plump and furry and expert at garbage-tipping. They are an adaptable squatter in buildings both abandoned and as homeowners know occupied. A friend had her front porch come crashing down when the weight of the resident raccoons caused the ceiling to collapse.

Mart Gross , a senior professor of conservation biology at the University of Toronto states that Raccoons are "an important part of the ecosystem and deserve the same protection as any wild species." Gross has come to realize the conservation groups do not recognize evolution and their view of the ecosystem is static. He points out that the planet is doing wheat it has always done. Changing. That we've played such a significant role in that is secondary to the fact that , as always, the planet will be more hospitable to some species than others. As Darwin would have said, let the strong or best suited-survive. Gross and his supporters ask Conservation biology to look forward not just backward.

I am sure that Gross' theories will cause many to consider the argument that some species are endangered because of human activity but we must allow for change. However, adapting his theories gives humans license to continue the destruction of habitat without thought of the species that thrive and depend on particular natural conditions.