Do you think that trying to stop extinction of animals is bad?

Question

if we had no effect on them dying,
then maybe its just nature, and natural in science for them to die, and be extinct.

Answer 1

yes Charles Darwin said this the best

Answer 2

New species evolve when they come under pressure or because they find a way to exploit a food source that is available.

What conservation tends to do is preserve the status quo and therefore ensure the species cannot evolve. It also tends to preserve much smaller areas which tends to lead to inbreeding amongst the species and thus to the ever weakening of it.

But there can never be an easy or correct solution. Just like the furore about the bear cub - every problem needs to be looked at and dealt with on an individual basis. Not only that but every time action is taken to preserve or protect a species the decisions and their effect should be examined on a regular basis to see if they are working, if they are having any unexpected effects and to see if anything can be done better.

In short what it needs is good scientific open minds and to avoid at all costs doing something because of bleeding hearts. Only cold clinical research and excellence stands a chance. Bleeding hearts almost always do things for the wrong reasons and in the wrong way and end up causing more harm than good!

Answer 3

IF we had NO effect on them dying, that is one thing...but if you look back at all the extinctions in the last 200 years, ALMOST all of them have been caused by humans either by destroying habitat, or hunting. Extinction is a natural event, everything becomes extinct eventually, but humans have sped up the process to an alarming rate, and we need to slow this process down as we have no idea what the consequences could be. One obvious consequece is that we are speeding up the extinction of ourselves as well.

Answer 4

animals do become extinct naturally. through competition and natural selection. but since humans have come onto the earth the extinction rate has risen 1000x to about .1% every year. so if we are trying to stop the extinction of animals that result from human development. then no it would not be a bad thing

Answer 5

If you're talking about the natural death of animals and trying to stop it, then I would say we're interfering with nature.
However if you're talking about the extinction of animal due to human interferences, then I would say it is not bad to stop that.

Answer 6

First of all, those who believe in evolution/Darwinism and say there is no God, must admit that every species evolves and becomes extinct as conditions force adaption/mutation for survival. To therefore intervene in this process, is "playing God", which violates the very principle they believe in. Therefore, I believe most of the problem in this world is people trying to "play God" or imagine they ARE God, like that smirking Gore giving his pre-recorded monotone on Capitol Hill the other day (Gorebal Warming). Let's go back to the Neolithic Age and see who survives...........

Answer 7

When we say we are trying to stop extinction, it is in reference to human interference. Natural Extinction, (Like the Goonie Bird, dinosaurs, etc.) is not what they are refering to.

Answer 8

True statement then. But we are an intelligent part of nature so why would we allow them to die. Because when one species dies it has a trickle down effect on all nature and eventually it might reach us.

Answer 9

No I think it is one of the best thing's that we have done in America because stupid retarded people put a higher cost on an animal when it's dead than when it's alive if we don't stop people from destroying the exotic rare animal's are kid's and are kid's kid's will have no memory of these amazing animal's I hope that people realize that animal's aren't just here to live but they need us to help protect them from smuggler's and pocher's

Answer 10

trying to stop it is the best thing we ever did. and it's not nature that is making them extinct it's humans. in the galapagos the fur seals almost became extinct because of hunters killing them for their fur...and all kinds of animals have almost become extinct or did become extinct because of hunters killing them for their fur...and bald eagles almost became extinct because of hunters...it's terrible...can you imagine how many species we don't know about because they've become extinct. buffalo's almost became extinct because of hunters killing them for their fur...i am 100% on stopping the extinction of animals

Answer 11

But its not nature that does the "natural selection" but its us, human who kill and extinct for our interest.