Amid the sixth mass extinction, frogs, salamanders, and caecilians remain the most threatened group of vertebrates on Earth. Over 40 percent of amphibian species are now threatened, the latest global assessment has found.
“Amphibians are disappearing faster than we can study them, but the list of reasons to protect them is long, including their role in medicine, pest control, alerting us to environmental conditions, and making the planet more beautiful,” explains Re:wild ecologist Kelsey Neam.
I feel like the reason these equations exist is because you’re trying to justify their existence to sociopaths. Most people don’t need any such convincing. Just hearing the idea of extinction is itself reason enough to worry.
Yeah, my hope is that the researcher feels like I (and apparently you) do. And that her intent was exactly as you said.
But I wanted to point it out. Because it’s easy to commidify life when we swim in an environment that reduces everything to a commodity. And I felt it fair to remind people of compassion.