Comments on: 12 rare animals that are teetering on the brink of extinction

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Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:03:21 +0000

[…] Susie, Ira, Zen Lill: You girls are all correct. It is way more than 12. I didn’t think it was only 12 out of so many on this planet but I certainly didn’t expect to hear 20,000. That is so disheartening. […]

By: BH

BH — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 17:30:34 +0000

Akram#8, well said ,, i agree with you,,, it just that everyone is deceived by that curtain of economics and personal provincial gains that they base their judgements solely on profitability….its ridiculous and sad

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 17:19:35 +0000

I suppose that the real question on this matter is do we have morals as a species?

Ecologically, competition and survival of the fittest are legitimate arguments for the extinction of any species.

But, we have to ask ourselves “is the extinction of a species the fault of man or is it the fault of natural selection?”.

If the answer is the fault of man, we have a duty to restore the species to it’s natural health.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 17:11:43 +0000

The slope is too slippery to save many, and is getting steeper. Sad to note every one of the critters most desired to be saved are mammals like us. We see much of our mammalian selves in them. But that’s not saving ecosystems that support these mammals, and us.

That’s what we don’t save from ourselves, because the entire ecosystem doesn’t look like us to us. So it dies, as it globally is. We’re finished as well for the same set of reasons, we just don’t know it yet.

By: Akram

Akram — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 17:11:07 +0000

The term “moral responsibility” doesn’t sit right with me. It should be a moral URGE for us to help these animals, not a responsibility.

The human race is essentially the reason why these animals’ habitats have been destroyed. And now we look upon their survival with facts, figures and debate. Trying to salvage some of the mess greed and industrialization on Earth has created.

We may be deemed the most intelligent on Earth, but we certainly aren’t applying it. We should be using our intelligence to help these animals, to be creating an Earth where no animal should have to go extinct through means of the human’s faults. Am I dreaming of another world?