Is trying to prevent an animal from natural extinction going against nature?

Animal species naturally going extinct is normal for any ecosystem. I believe that something near 99% of all species that have ever existed on earth are extinct. Trying to preserve a species that is going extinct as part of the natural order of things could actually cause havoc on other species; many times in ways that one's good intentions cannot even perceive at the time.

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.

If the animal just cannot survive in the wild anymore, and it's not something where our interference is the problem and can therefore be stopped or reversed (such as over logging or polluting) then the "laws" of nature say it's time for that animal to die out. The natural cycle will allow an animal more fit for survival to fill the niche and take over in a renewed ecosystem. 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.

Technically yes. However, I don't think going against nature is so bad. Skyscrapers aren't particularly natural, yet they're still impressive works of art and we're always building more of them.

Breeding new varieties of animals is also going against nature. We simply try to do things that we consider to be of benefit to us. In a way, that's a truly natural thing to do.

Possibly, however if that species helps an ecosystem or otherwise has something to benefit humanity I am all for stepping in. Humanity goes against nature time and again to create dog breeds, better crops, artificial limbs, and even fighting cancer with radiation. In these and many other examples I am strongly in favor of going against nature.(sorry nature!) The plant or animal that gets wiped out could be the next great pet, food, or medicine.

Natural extinction is pretty difficult to believe these days. Humanities encroachment on practically every habitable piece of land pretty much has made natural extinction...well...extinct. The only animal that I have heard of that may have gone extinct through natural causes is species of thrush bird whose only habitat was some island that happened to get hit by hurricanes.

Other than that, animals all other animals that have gone extinct since man has taken over the planet has been because of mankind. The Carolina Parakeet, native to the eastern U.S. Used to number in the millions. Farmers saw them as annoying because they destroyed crops."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" (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.

I believe that attempting to right any type of ecological wrong due to human interference is the right thing to do. If a species is suffering because of our exploration or expansion, it is our responsibility to try and repair that natural order. Humans have had such a negative impact on the earth, because of our curiosity and greed.In those situations, I agree, yes we should preserve the animal.

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?

Right now animals are going extinct as part of the HOLOCENE EXTINCTION EVENT - which is not natural at all, but human caused scienceray.com/biology/ecology/the-holoc... 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.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.