Well for starters I’ve always been an animal activist in the sense that I foster home for over thirty animals for animal save but as far as wildlife species I’ve only had the pleasure of assisting a few. The question of how do we choose the species we need to conserve is a puzzled one. My first instinct would be to conserve the ones that are the closest to extinction although that isn’t always the right choice. Another choice would be to divert our attention to the species that quickest one to repopulate but there again is that the right line of thinking. After reading about conservation of species I understand now that the right way to go about conservation is based on their instrumental value. This theory makes the most sense. Every species is involved in the food chain or contribute to many types of resources so instrumental value helps distinguish more valuable animals then others. Their usefulness as it contributes to the form of economic and ecological service is how biologist determines a value of a species. Although all animal contribute to the biodiversity of our planet but some can not be replaced in that they provide treatments for diseases and supply a variety of food crop. I still feel that all animals are equal in my sees even including spiders and bugs but not from a scientific perspective.

I believe most people focus on the cute and cuddly animals and do not focus on the ones we don’t see in zoos or don’t have a likeable factor. The ones that go unnoticed tend to be the ones that are in the most danger of extinction. We all know that Polar Bears, Siberian tigers, and Panda Bears are all on the verge of extinction due to the environmental changes and illegal poachers. The cute furry creatures are the ones that are featured by the different organizations that try to fund conservation; however, do you ever see a picture of a snake that is threatened and say hey I want to save that species? I think we probably ignore the animals that are not cute and cuddly but also forget to mention all the plants that are facing extinction. Sad but true.

If biodiversity did not exist everything would be the same. We know that we need to focus on saving as many species as possible because if they had no purpose on this planet they would of never existed at all. They all exist as part of our ecological balance and nature usually tends to balance itself out until man comes in and speeds up the process. Although in the past the earth has wiped out its entire species as a natural part of the ecological system but times have changed and the human race now exists. Maybe some species are supposed to be extinct forever but not at the vas rate it is growing. I don’t believe that it is good for the environment for cloned animals be the replacing factor of the rapidly reducing animal population.

I do not believe that we should eradicate introduced species because that is how our nation began to form which eventually became 98 percent of the United States food supply. Can we all look at life and imagine it without cows, wheat, or corn as part of our week to week eating habits? It has been proven that many introduced species are important to the environment and help us survive day to day. On the other hand, unintended introduced species can be detrimental to certain habitats and species such as introducing new diseases that can destroy all these things as whole. We should give attention to some introduced species and work on conserving them as well because some of them are necessary to our life on this planet. There are both good and bad side effects when introducing a new species.

If we would all learn to conserve our use for all resources it might help slow down the extinction process and possibly reverse some. Some how we need to make it harder for people to illegally hunt and extract species but that is a distant vision. Poachers are all over the world are only out for one thing profit. Most high end poachers that make the most impact on the environment are usually in undeveloped countries and how can one try to convince another when eating one percent, if that, of what we eat daily to do the right thing when they are just trying to survive? We need to find a successful solution to the balance between human needs and the needs of wildlife before we wont have a problem to solve.