Davram of Uther expresses a deep concern of his on the WoW General Forums: Nagrand has too much prey and too few predators. The land is full of grass and slow-moving herbivores like talbuk, clefthoof and elekk. The windrocs are too small to really keep the population in check, the elementals don't seem to eat anything, and the ogres and orcs seem too intent on killing each other to take out anything else. How will we prevent mass starvation and overpopulation?

Several people point out the obvious answer: Hemet Nesingwary's already there, and he's all the predator Nagrand needs. Davram responds with "The zone is still in trouble if it expects one crazed, bloodthirsty dwarf to keep the ecosystem balanced," which leads to some fairly awesome math. If there's eight million WoW players, and only one million of them do the Nesingwary quests, then we will be killing 60 million clefhoof, talbuk and windrocs, along with 1 million each of their "best and brightest" leaders. Oh, and a ton of elekk for the Consortium's demented ivory needs.

A couple forumgoers say there are bigger problems: Badlands doesn't have any PREY, and all the water in the rivers in Outlands is apparently flowing into space, killing millions of fish. Clearly, we need to start a cultural exchange program between Badlands and Nagrand. Badlands can use the water, and all those big cats have got to be getting hungry. They could probably do with an elekk or two.

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