It's not just the Netherlands, this is happening in Italy as well. Part of it is just the natural consequence of people having abandoned the countryside and mountains for the cities. But we certainly forgot what it means to not be the only apex predator around- we used to be able to roam around without a fear in the world like we owned the fucking place (we did). It's nice to have a wild ecosystem around but we probably forgot what it means to have around beings that are... unaligned with us.

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defrost an hour ago | parent [-]

Speaking as a non urban northern Australian .. I'm guessing that's very much a European "we"?

Here we're still surrounded by wild ecosystems and unaligned others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA3SuHtCWo0

	▲	literalAardvark an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I guess. It applies in more places that are heavily anthropized, such as many islands. But yeah, most of Europe is practically a garden.
	▲	tourmalinetaco an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Absolutely an American and European “we”, you Aussies play on hard mode. Your closest natural deer analogue (kangaroos) looks like it served time for assault and didn’t learn its lesson, and it seems like a new poisonous animal is discovered every other week.