{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"2022 Archive of RENATURED, Marina Zurkow&#039;s Research Blog","provider_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022","author_name":"Marina","author_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/author\/admin\/","title":"Against eliminating species","html":"I just read this passage written by Harley Shaw, in the 2002 introduction for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Wolf in the Southwest, the Making of an Endangered Species<\/span>\u00a0 (1983) by David E. Brown. Shaw\u00a0 is a research biologist specializing in mountain lions\u00a0 in SW NM:\r\n<blockquote>\"Eliminating species leads to intellectual dead ends. Once a creature is gone, we no longer have reason to understand it. Our world becomes simpler, and our minds simpler with it. Problem-solving is an open-ended activity. Interacting with a species provides a means for intellectual growth, eliminating it simply leaves another blank spot \u2013 on earth and in our minds.\"<\/blockquote>","type":"rich"}