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National Parks are often view by Americans as the emblem of nature—even with roads running through them clogged with traffic.

The evidence for personal amnesia comes from an analysis of the responses of those people who thought that the bird fauna of the area had not changed

evidence of “generational amnesia

Personal amnesia is when people forget how things used to be during the course of their own lives, for example they may not remember that things which are rarely sighted now were once common

over one-third of participants had a static view

“If we don't realize what we are losing we stand the risk of sleepwalking through the destruction of the natural world without taking action to remedy the situation,”

in the western United States wolves have been locally extinct for so long that no one remembers when they were plentiful. As far the community is concerned wolves are not a part of the natural environment

The problem is especially exacerbated when scientific data is not available regarding past conditions of an ecosystem

human perception of nature is subject to all sorts of failings, due to short life spans, poor communication (generational amnesia), and unreliable memory(personal amnesia)