Why? Fuck you, that's why!

We don’t have any of the large predators we used to (black bears, mountain lions, or gray wolves) but still retain large deer populations. If nothing is removing animals, they’ll quickly overload the carrying capacity of the environment and have massive losses to starvation and disease that can also pass on to livestock. Human hunters replace the large predators that our landscape can no longer support.

It’s kinder to euthanize an un-releasable hawk rather than try to find it a permanent home with humans. Wildlife rehabs have extremely limited space and resources and are usually run entirely on donated money and volunteer time. Only a few are large and stable enough to care for permanent residents long-term, and those spots are few and far between.

An invasive species poses a danger to threatened native wildlife. I will admit- Australian possums are adorable. But not in New Zealand, where they’re an invasive species that eats the eggs of ground-dwelling birds that previously had no such predators. The landowners I worked with replanting native bush, all native Maori, had no qualms about setting the dogs on them.

if something wants to get at your blood, and they’re, say, some kind of murdersaurus, or maybe a really big frog, that’s where the problems start to arise. a really frog is not made for removing blood, and your blood knows this, which is why it is so vehement about wanting to stay IN your body instead of coming out. 

As for pop, I love Ellinoora, and especially her first two albums:

Villi lapsi

Vaaleanpunainen vallankumous

Haloo Helsinki is also very mainstream but they have good stuff. Personally i love the album Älä pelkää elämää, it touches on contemporary issues and for me, it encapsulates the desperate struggle to keep hope in these trying times.

One of my favourite albums of all time is Olisinpa täällä by Saimaa and Pyhimys - but beware, it's full of sadness and melancholy because it's all about dying of cancer. It's great though. The lyrics are perfect.

If you are a finnish learner, I found Lyyti's music quite good in how clear and understandable she is, e.g. Meitä ei ole kutsuttu.