This is an excellent example of how it’s a bad idea to mess with ecosystems without really knowing what you’re doing. Ideally, any intervention should be tested on some trustworthy (ie. more-or-less complete, and experimentally verified) ecological simulations to make sure it won’t have any catastrophic effects down the chain.
But of course it would be a mistake to conclude from this that keeping things as they are is inherently good.
This is an excellent example of how it’s a bad idea to mess with ecosystems without really knowing what you’re doing. Ideally, any intervention should be tested on some trustworthy (ie. more-or-less complete, and experimentally verified) ecological simulations to make sure it won’t have any catastrophic effects down the chain.
But of course it would be a mistake to conclude from this that keeping things as they are is inherently good.