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That LITERALLY never fucking happened. The claims this horseshit is based on come from ONE island and even that's fucking nonsense because Reindeer can swim. There has NEVER been a forest that has collapsed due to herbivores.
There HAVE been multiple plant species and entire ecosystems that have collapsed due to their removal though. There are multiple books about it.
Every single claim of this kind is based on outright lies which are spread by federal agencies and propaganda, then shills online.
>I saw it on teebee so it must be true!
HUMAN sheep farmers destroyed the forests in Scotland. Yet deer are still being blamed.
HUMANS destroyed the forests in Iceland.
HUMANS at one point cut down almost every fucking tree in america and fucked up the vegetation so bad they caused the dust bowl. Yet deer were and are still blamed.
Deer never collapsed the forests at Yellowstone. Yellowstone doesn't HAVE forest. It has sparse, open stands of trees. That's it. That's all it's ever had.
The federal government created CWD by housing Mule Deer with sheep to keep deer numbers higher for hunters
Ranchers spread brucellosis to Bison and Elk.
Humans brought chlamydia to koalas and leprosy to armadillos, then blamed the animals.
It's nothing more than anti-Nature propaganda. Every single stupid reddit tier meme you hear about how "pandas are bad at evolution" is made up bullshit by propagandists and pushed by Eglin Air Force Base (reddit) and every single thing I'm saying is well-documented. The anti-deer propaganda originates with hunters because bloodsport literally can't be justified on moral grounds, so a made up bullshit story about "predators keeping the balance" had to be fabricated. In modern times this has gotten worse.