They tried to eliminate an entire species, and for a moment, it worked.In 1958, during China’s Four Pests Campaign, sparrows were declared enemies of the state. Millions were eliminated in a nationwide extermination effort ordered under Mao Zedong.But removing the sparrows didn’t fix the problem, it triggered an ecological collapse, the worst in history.With sparrows gone, insect populations exploded, crops failed, and the crisis escalated into one of the deadliest disasters in Chinese history.This is the true story of the sparrow campaign in China, the unintended consequences of human intervention, and how a war on nature turned into catastrophe.
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