This is the prompt for a group discussion in my ethics course. I have already delivered two answers but I'm wondering what the cramster-universe has to say!
"In the end, for Russow, endangered species are valued as a a matter of aesthetics and the beauty of members of endangered species is, at least in part, due to their rarity.
It would appear that what we are saying that the destruction of the last Bengal Tiger may equated morally with the destruction of the Mona Lisa painting. Does this make sense?"