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They're fine for now, though we're making things tough for them:
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/70/2/157/5715071
Their population has been dwindling to such an extent I've encountered people that have never seen them before and assumed they weren't real. You must live somewhere nice if you get to see lots of them!