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RE: Do all Species Deserve Protection?
Picking and choosing species may not really be up to us, but rather the ones we protect are the ones that we actually come across and realize are on the brink of extinction. So many species are so hard to find that they may be going extinct without us even knowing it.
I believe the last time I looked up the extinction rate it was estimated to be between 1000 and 10000 times more than what would naturally be occurring without human interaction. That says to me that we should be trying to protect as many species as possible.
So true! We have such limited knowledge of the species that exist in tropical regions and within the ocean... I was more geared towards deciding between which species to protect among those we know exist because even those few we don't have enough resources to protect them all in my opinion.... Thanks for the info in the extinction rates. I think at one point I learned the estimated rates in one of my classes but it's always nice to be updated on facts!!