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I live in a rural area. It is filled with all kinds of wildlife from earthworms to bears, all of whom leave their metabolic waste in large quantities everywhere. Should they all be eradicated and all the fields and forests be cleansed in the name of Good Hygiene?

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Not in forests! But in cities and houses yes, absolutely! And we actually do that, if dangerous bear wanders into town, it gets removed! In cities we eradicate rats, cockroaches and all sorts of filthy animals!

Dangerous predators belong to nature and forests. Public city parks are not nature (or toilet)!

There is not a single city on the planet that managed to eradicate rats, and the only cities without cockroaches are in climates where they don't survive.

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