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How to talk to children about species extinction

My daughter keeps asking why the butterflies don't come to our garden anymore and I don't know how to tell a six-year-old that we might have killed them all.

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The innocence of childhood questions collides with the weight of ecological collapse, leaving parents struggling between protection and honesty.

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