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Man-Swine t1_iqoaomg wrote

These rascals will cost the tax payer millions in damages. They are cute though.

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Samwise2512 OP t1_iqog4ap wrote

They certainly won't cost millions if they are proactively managed. And any costs need to be factored against the considerable value of the ecosystem services they provide such as buffering against flooding, droughts and wildfires, enhancing biodiversity and with that ecological resilience, recharging aquifers, carbon sequestration, filtering agricultural fertilisers entering waterways, etc.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mam.12220

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