Do you think humans should intervene in the preservation of animals populations that are endangered?

Question

why or why not?

Answer 1

i think we probably should.

it's nice of us, for example, to protect the birds we almost did in.

but there's a better reason.

specifically, for each large animal, there are hundreds of smaller ones.

suppose we'd killed off, by accident, the fungus that gave us penicillin?

maybe when we killed of the passenger pigeon.

i think that's sufficient reason to try to protect species.

but that's just me.

Answer 2

An interesting question. Some species will die out from natural causes, others manmade. We should try to prevent our own actions from wiping out other species, which may be the key to many of our problems (nutritian, medicine, etc). When one creature is removed, who knows what the effect will be down the food chain line? I remember reading a story about an island population killing off all its feral cats to help the native bird species -- only to have a population explosion of rats.

Ultimately, I think the thing that bothers me about such preservation programs that exist today is that even after we "rescue" most species, the reasons causing them to become endangered in the first place haven't changed. Until we address the human overpopulation and overconsumption problem, we will only be chasing our tails in trying to preserve the endangered species.

Answer 3

it's already being done. It's called the Endangered Species List.

Answer 4

When we are the ones responsible for a species' being endangered--which is most of the time--yes.  we only have one world--if we ruin it, there's no cosmic WalMart where we can buy another placeto live.

Answer 5

YES! Human was created to be the steward of the Earth. That responsiblity must be lived up to. Among the creatures only humans were given the faculty to think, be of virtue, understand and be intelligent. Lets us learn to protect the underdogs.

Preserving these endangered animal species means protecting the Homo Sapiens species.

Answer 6

Considering that more than likely it was humans that caused the endangerment in the first place, the yes.

Humans have the knowledge and ability to protect animal species, animals do not, so it is up to humans to use that God given knowledge.