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I respect all thing that swim, creep, fly, and crawl upon this earth. I mourn the loss of any of the creator's works of living art. That being said, many of the species they are talking about are outside the borders of the United States, and not the concern of our government or our populace. If wealthy people want to save the rainforest more power to them, the Nature Conservancy accepts donations. As someone said the definition of extinction is also in question. For example I love the thought of wild horses running in the Pryor Mountains of Wyoming but if somebody shot every last one of them, there would still be horses in this world, but someone might write that the Pryor Mountain wild horse herd was extinct. Predictions of future events is an iffy proposition especially when dealing with biology. The source of many of these proclamations of eminent extinction are political in nature. Life has a way of surprising academics with its resiliency, so many of these articles are people making some noise to further their own careers.