[jyl]

Most species extinctions happening today are not "natural selection". They are "species extermination by man" - by us.

Through habitat destruction, hunting, over fishing, pollution, we are wiping out other species on this earth. Since it is "us" choosing to wipe out species, we can also choose to not wipe out those species.

Human nature being what it is, we tend to care most about cool attractive larger species - tigers, elephants, tuna, whales.

Some people are indifferent to species extinction, and they present their view as "letting nature take its course". But when they or they kids get sick, they don't let nature take its course - they're at the doctor for intervention. So, maybe intervention to save a remarkable species of animal isn't such a weird idea.