China actually won the war against sparrows, not sure what they’re getting at. It wasn’t a good thing, of course
What is this war against plants? First time I am hearing of this.
It’s against those tumbleweeds. I’ve never seen one because we don’t have them here, but I’ve heard that when they appear, there are thousands, and they get everywhere and damage things. Apparently, if you put up a fence, they just make a pile, forming a ramp for more tumbleweeds to get over the fence.
They’re referring to tumbleweeds in this case.
I always remember them as the things in cartoons that indicate an area is abandoned/remote lmao
Ah, thanks!
What event are they refering to?
Mao declaring sparrows a plague and ordering their extermination. This was because sparrows were eating the grain in the fields and were seen as a pest.
However the extermination of the sparrows led to a catastrophic rise in the pest insect population which devastated Chinese agriculture as they did not have access to sufficient amounts of pesticides. The birds also spread many native plant’s seeds through eating their berries and defecating, so the death of the sparrows led to extremely damaging ecological effects on the native plant life.
Have sparrows been successfully reintroduced?
Over time their numbers rose to normal levels again.
No China definitely beat sparrows, maybe too much
I’m aware of the great emu war, but what are the others?