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Numbers Have ‘Tumble[d] Quite Rapidly’

Flamingos are crucial to the local economy and ecosystems.
Flamingos are crucial to the local economy and ecosystems. Photo: John Moore (Getty Images)

“It’s not like they all die at once, but if you’re not reproducing all of a sudden, even things that live as long as flamingos start to die,” Dorador told Reuters. “And that’s where numbers really start to tumble quite rapidly.”