Magnus Vinding: “I think [nature conservation is] really just bizarre. It’s as though nature is being treated as some collector’s object. They seem especially concerned about rare species and about how “we can’t lose them”. So is it for your [own] sake or is it for their sake? It’s very bizarre to me…”

Brian Tomasik: “Yeah, it seems an extension of human’s general tendency to want to preserve rare things. There are also antique collectors and people who care about the first edition or the Mona Lisa, religious artifacts or was this object touched by a saint in the past. So there are a lot of ways in which humans have these special attachments to inanimate or at least non-conscious objects. So what you described in particular is probably an extension of that.”

— transcribed from Magnus Vinding and Brian Tomasik on insects and wild-animal suffering