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01/20/2009: "Wild species mix and extinction occurs through human intervention"
Throughout the forests of its Pacific Northwest home, the spotted owl, listed as a threatened species, is facing a new challenge.
An interloper from the Midwest, the barred owl, has moved in and the birds are interbreeding - creating fertile, hybrid "sparred owls."
And that's the crux of the problem. Humans are bringing together animals that have never seen each other before, either through habitat destruction, the international pet trade- or travel.
[ Things to note from this: that the definition of a species does not in fact include that it cannot produce fertile offspring with another species. This raises questions over whether some human "races" are really - as some biologists have claimed - different species.
The other point is that when whites are blamed for miscegenation, as if it is entirely the fault of white ethnicities when this happens, it is an unfair accusation. It is inevitable that when one species or race is forced into the area of another interbreeding will happen. In natural circumstances all creatures move further apart and develop into different groups, but humans are forcing other humans to miscegenate unnaturally in the same way that these wild animal species are being destroyed. The blame lies in the main with the people who are causing the problems of genocidal proximity and not with the individuals who don't know any better than to mate outside of their ethnicity. ]
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1217_021226_tvinterbreeding.html