“Why are people trying to conserve species? A “species” can’t feel pain or pleasure. It’s the individual members of a species that matter. Humans shouldn’t put their aesthetic preferences above the vital interests of sentient beings. To an animal, it doesn’t matter whether it belongs to a species that is going extinct or not, the animal just wants to live with as little suffering as possible. If we give more consideration to some animal just because it belongs to an endangered species, that seems blatantly speciesist.”

— Lukas Gloor