Do we care about animals or species that are about to be extinct?

Question

Yes we do.

But say if a mosquito or cockroach are about to be extinct, would we take it seriously? Surely we don't like these insects so much, so would we care if they are extinct or not?

Answer 1

Probably a good idea not let any species become extinct. While I'd love to have no more mosquitoes, their absence would be less food for many bats. Everything has it's place in ecology. There are many things that eat mosquitoes and roaches and if we disturb one part of the ecosystem, other things will start to be affected. It's like a domino effect.

Answer 2

Do we understand the issues we are talking about?
You ask a question and then answer for us?
Animals go extinct when they can not adapt to enviromental changes. If there is no place for an animal to live, then its hard to save the species. Whats more we discover new species popping up that thrive in the new enviroment, so then we are faced with the question, should we save the old one that no longer has a way of life, or the new one that is now comfortably living in this new enviroment.

I think the ones that people are really concerned about are species that are going extinct because of our encrouchment on thier envirment. Cockroaches and mosquitos thrive on our encrouchment, so there really is no issue with them going extinct ever.

However, in nature they are part of the circle of life (watch 'The Lion King' for more info), so thier disappearance could have some rippling effects on the rest of the enviroment that I can not even think of right now.

Answer 3

Animals are a part of God’s creative process in Genesis. God created the animals and said they were good (Genesis 1:25). Therefore, there is no reason why there could not be animals on the new earth (Revelation 21:1). There will most definitely be animals during the millennial kingdom (Isaiah 11:6; 65:25). It is impossible to say definitively whether some of these animals might be the pets we had while here on earth. We do know that God is just and that when we get to heaven we will find ourselves in complete agreement with His decision on this issue, whatever it may be.

Answer 4

Like Amy said everything is connected. Like dominoes only we don´t always know which dominoes there are. One species we dislike going extinct may cause a species we do like going extinct. Dominoes might begin crashing all around us and too late we might realize we are one of them. Case in point: Mao Tze Dong once ordered the chinese people to embark on a nationwide effort to rid china of a bird that he though were eating their crops. And so every chinese started killing these birds where ever and how ever they could. And these birds were soon on the edge of extinction. Only the birds were actually eating more insects than grain. With the birds gone the population of pests exploded causing the worst starvation in history (along with several other bright ideas of Maos Great Leap). Some put the number of victims of Maos little agricultural revolution to 20 million dead...

Answer 5

Mosquitos are a very important part of the ecosystem..they are a food source for thousands of other species...birds, bats, lizards, frogs, etc. By saving them we would in turn be saving many other species as well. I would work to save them just as much as I would a cute or cuddly endangered animal.

Answer 6

You can't eliminate those most unliked arthropods - it's somewhat ironic, but the cockroaches and mosquitos are among the toughest.

Answer 7

Yeah save the cute ones.

Answer 8

We? Why is it you included every living human being in your question? The answer, of course is no. How could it logically be anything else.

Answer 9

every kind of living thing has the right to live and reproduce. i live in Texas and we have roaches and mosquito's that are huge. we kill them because they Carry disease but they have the right to live.

Answer 10

They are a menace to society, I would love to help stomp them out