Is trying to prevent an animal from natural extinction going against nature?
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I draw a clear distinction between natural extinction over imposed extinction. Imposed extinction, such as when a particular species is put in peril due to over hunting, habitat eradication, etc. can and should be prevented. Natural extinction should not.
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As such, in the interest of letting evolution go along, I would say we should not help it stay in the wild. If it's something we can keep it captivity, however, we might as well preserve it. It could help us understand climate change, evolution, or just biology. It shouldn't be able to hurt anything in a zoo.
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The plant or animal that gets wiped out could be the next great pet, food, or medicine.
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"The last wild specimen was killed in Okeechobee County, Florida in 1904, and the last captive bird died at the Cincinnati Zoo on 21 February 1918" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Parakeet). The carrier pigeon when the same way. The last one shot four years prior.
Adaption to new environmental stimuli takes hundreds if not thousands of years, not overnight. So animals whose habitat changes practically overnight can't possibly learn to adapt. Since we caused the damage, mankind should do all we can to reverse it. Otherwise, the only place to see wild animals will be in a zoo or looking at pictures in books.
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If it is simply our interference in nature, than no. Again, it would be the human race making decisions to interrupt the natural order. What would the Earth be like if the dinosaurs were to never have become extinct?
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Right now animals are going extinct as part of the HOLOCENE EXTINCTION EVENT - which is not natural at all, but human caused
http://scienceray.com/biology/ecology/the-holocene-extinction-event/
if you look at animals who are going extinct, its because we have destroyed their habitat or over hunted their population, or some other such problem. there are NO natural extinctions on the list of endangered species.
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Extinction is a natural process. :) Humanity has indeed caused many extinctions, but those are not natural.
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:xbcz40H5EBoJ:www.uwec.edu/jolhm/EH4/Extinction/Extinction.ppt+natural+extinction&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Hopefully that link works it was a pfd viewed as html but great overview of the causes of extinction including those that can be natural.
