Cengage Advantage Books: Sustaining the Earth 10th Edition by Tyler Miller,Scott Spoolman

Exercise 5

What are two reasons for trying to prevent our hastening of extinction of wild species? What is the instrumental value of a species? List four types of instrumental values provided by wild species. What is the intrinsic value of a species? Why do some biologists caution us not to focus primarily on protecting the relatively large organisms with which we are most familiar?