The author of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation essay believes that we should learn about as many different species of animals as possible, because there is no way to protect them from extinction if we don’t know that they exist. I don’t know enough about this topic to decide weather or not it is necessary to learn about all the different species. What I do know is that species are becoming extinct at very quick rates, biodiversity is important, and that documentation and research of rare species would be a very costly and time consuming for many people. Ecosystems all around the world are loosing biodiversity at a very fast rate. It may be necessary to document the extinctions in order to inform people of what is happening so that they can attempt to change it. On the other hand, in some ecosystems there is so many different species that it would just be a expensive, never-ending process. It could be basically pointless because we would never be able to know about enough of them to come to conclusions of how to save them.
One of the authors main points was that we can not know how to prevent a species from going extinct when we do not even know that they exist. Some people believe that there is no reason to save the species from going extinct, because if they are dying off it must be because they are not able to survive in the current living conditions. Other species that are capable of evolving so that they can live in the current environmental conditions, are allowed to flourish when another species dies off. The earth is a constantly changing place, and all creature must adapt or die. We are not capable to fully understand most of the worlds ecosystems, and we never will despite how much research is put into learning about them.
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