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$10.00 The Species Approach to Sustaining Biodiversity
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- Due on Aug. 05, 2011
- Asked on Aug 02, 2011 at 1:16:50PM
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Need help please.
Review the
following statements and choose one that best describes your feelings towards
wildlife. Defend the statement you choose by providing at least three reasons
for your point of view.
a) As long as it stays in its space, wildlife is
okay.
okay.
b) As long as I do not need its space, wildlife is
okay.
okay.
c) I have the right to use wildlife habitat to meet my
own needs.
own needs.
d) When you have seen one redwood tree, elephant, or any
other form of wildlife, you have seen them all, so lock up a few of each species
in a zoo or wildlife park and don not worry about protecting the
rest.
other form of wildlife, you have seen them all, so lock up a few of each species
in a zoo or wildlife park and don not worry about protecting the
rest.
e) Wildlife should be protected.
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Answer "The Species Approach to Sustaining Biodiversity"
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Preview: ... ey provide the natural materials for food and medicine, it is necessary for the maintenance of genetic diversity, and wildlife is pleasing to all and ...
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Wildlife Should Be Prtected. The Best Answer You Can Get.
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Preview: ... extinction. The problem then and now is to establish the thesis that wild species have some value that makes it essential to preserve them. If we can identify that value, then we will be able to assess what our moral duties are in relation to wild species.
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Instrumental Value: Philosophers who have addressed this problem identify two kinds of value that should be considered. The first is instrumental value. A species or individual organism has instrumental value if its existence or use benefits some other entity (by providing food, shelter, or a source of income). The second one called Intrinsic Value: Something has intrinsic value when it has value for its own sake, that is, it does not have to be useful to us to possess value.
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The usefulness (instrumental value) of many wild species is apparent. But instrumental value alone may not be a compelling reason to protect many wild species. What about the species that have no obvious value to anyone – including many plant and animal species? Another strategy for preserving wild species is to emphasize the intrinsic value of species rather than their unknown or uncertain ecological and economic values. ...
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