Just as we have Seed Banks in the world, I believe we ought to have Animal Arks. These are very large open habitats with difficult to pass barriers. Little huma

Just as we have Seed Banks in the world, I believe we ought to have Animal Arks. These are very large open habitats with difficult to pass barriers. Little human involvement is permitted and trespassing carries an instantaneous death penalty. I see this as the only plausible way to prevent the disappearance of Rhino, Elephant, Cheetah and many other animals that you had plastic toys of when you were a child. Those animals are going to be as extinct as the dinosaurs toys you played with in our lifetime. https://xkcd.com/1338/ https://xkcd.com/1338/ We have very little biodiversity in Europe, outside of our domestic animals the typical country has nothing much larger than foxes or squirrels running around. Conservation is a patriotic planet wide duty for humans and it is one of the few things that ought to go over traditional rivalries. I do not accept for example, that Africans, South Americans or Southeast Asians have the right to demolish important species because they are within their political territories. There is no moral reason not to simply extract them from there using a combination of carrot and stick since they are clearly incapable of handling the problem themselves at this stage of development, just as Europeans were back in the 1700s not exactly looking out for the plight of endangered wolves, boars or bears. Most major insights into biology and medicine come from having a variety of species around. So it is not as if we have no self interest. Ultimately any 'Arks' would be easily repaid for millions of times over in a variety of ways, even if just because you would ultimately be the only available source of rare biomaterials.