The “panda effect”!

Good news, environmental agencies know about it and exploit it. They select species that they call umbrella species. The gist is that protecting those species (eg pandas) also protect a lot of other less cute, more resilient, but nonetheless important species and ecosystems (eg bamboo forests).

Perceived complexity*

I'd say uniqueness more.

If one species of 47 different kind of European Swallows go extinct, it's just not a big deal because the niche will be refilled in a few generations and in a decade they'd be pretty much the same as the OG.

If something like a platypus was threatened with extinction, a lot more people would care, because what the actual fuck is a platypus?!

That weird fuck survived when everything tangentially related to it except one animal half a world away that looks nothing like it died off long ago.

That shit we need to protect. And I'd go farther and say we should encourage diversification of those species so an entire branch of our planets genetic history is pruned.

Like those tiny pools of water that have been separated from all other life for millenia, it's not enough to protect those organisms and their tiny natural habitats. We should be encouraging their growth and evolution, because absolutely nothing else would increase our planets genetic diversity as much as those weird living fossils.

The “panda effect”!

Does anyone else remember when pandas were white with black spots?! We jumped realities!

/s

That's why planet Pupulon will survive. https://pbfcomics.com/comics/executive-decision/

Without the platypus who would stop the evil scientists?

Kinda true. We're celebrating the upcoming extinction of Guinea Worm in Africa - a parasite that causes painful wounds.

I don't care who the environmentalists send

I am NOT tolerating the existence of mosquitoes

What if they were necessary for panda breeding.

Side note, whatch what happens when this baby panda sneezes! Omg it's so cute!

You're just mad that they're higher on the food chain than us

I am, that's a good half of the problem