And as a horse lover you know I mean business. It's ridiculous how ill-informed and ignorant people are about this issue.

sometimes I forget that your average person doesn't necessarily know a lot about invasive species

A+ would reblog if I Tumbl'd.

Yep. It's why I roll my eyes at people who claim to be against all hunting for any reason.

My dad is an ecologist and currently edits the Journal of Invasive Species, so it's something I've just always heard about

Good! I think it's something that should be taught in school as part of science or social studies.

Seriously. Invasive species go hand in hand with human expansion, we should learn about them.

you're forgetting that wild horses are genuinely endangered

A Przewalski's Horse isn't the same species as a mustang, though.

true enough, but people might be talking about them

not exclusively mustangs

I think the 'this nation's wild horses' kind've rules out Przewalski's.

(I generally forget that my "raised by scientists" upbriging was... different)

Interestingly, preserving species of mosquito is a legit thing, as replacement by non-native species as a result of climate change has some large concerns in terms of public health, etc.

Przewalski's Horse isn't native to America. I'm talking about American "wild" horses, which is a misnomer because there haven't been wild horses in America for 10,000 years.

There are a crazy amount of groups out there that exist for the sole purpose of conserving Mustangs. Just Mustangs.

It's ridiculous and the ignorance makes my head hurt.

There. I changed it to "American Wild Horse Conservation".

Or at least I thought I did. Does it take a few minutes to update?

Ah, there.