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Why Do We Save Some Species and Let Others Get Devastated?

All Creatures Great and Small

Why do we use enormous resources to save some species and let others die? Melissa Holbrook Pierson on the strange ways of humans.

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There are currently over 1,200 species of animals listed as endangered or threatened, and those are only the ones we know about. Some as yet undiscovered may well have disappeared between the time we lit the birthday candles and, appropriately, blew them out.

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