Yes, at the same time: Imagine if in the US: there was a new poisonous snake that killed 400 000 people. Someone said: Let's exterminate that type of snake.

Yes, at the same time: Imagine if in the US: there was a new poisonous snake that killed 400 000 people. Someone said: Let's exterminate that type of snake. Then, do you think someone from the US/Europe/Australia would have replied "but maybe the snake is an important part of the ecosystem" ? Would that have been a bit like not putting out a fire burning down a city, because maybe the fire might cause certain unknown nuts to grow into plants and trees, the following years, and maybe maybe those trees were important somehow?