Endangered Animal Problem?

Question

What do you do if an endangered animal is eating an endangered plant?

Answer 1

I like KERRY's answer - sounds good to me, educated and well thought out.

Answer 2

If we don't take action to it, the plant's species may reduce 1. So I'll just push that animal in the cage and give it to the zoo.

Answer 3

Idk what can you do?  Its probably wild if its endangered, so you have to just let things be.  Sorry...

Answer 4

Try to increase the plant population. Save the plant, you save the animal.

Of course, in the real world, it's rarely that simple, but many animal species regulate their population in response to the availability of food (especially if they are dependent on one particular plant - you see this with butterflies a lot, for example), so it's unlikely that the animal will eat the plant into extinction unless it has an alternate food source, in which case it won't hurt them to block their access to the endangered plant as much as possible. If the plant is the animal's only food source, the animal's birthrate (and survival rate) will increase when the number of plants increases. Voila, salvation.

Answer 5

Photograph it and sell the photo to the highest bidder.