Ned and Bill cast the lance on conservation, unfortunatly it wasn't sharp enough

The view established in Ned Hettinger and Bill Throop’s “Refocusing Ecocentrism: De-emphasizing Stability and Defending Wildness” contains messages that are demeaning to all conservation efforts. The purpose of conservation is not solely designed to allow organisms to exist exterior to human intervention, but more importantly, to repay a debt which has resulted from westward expansion, industrialization or a mixture of the two. Wolves wouldn’t have needed to be conserved if they weren’t pushed to the brink of extinction. Furthermore, it is completely sophomoric and unintelligible to assume that wolves were reintroduced for the sole purpose of allowing future generations to enjoy them. “Doing it for the children” impacts the population and motivates them to become proactive. Any parent would want for their children the same experiences, if not better, than what they have experienced. Therefore prompting the public to help with these efforts through the use of intrinsic values has a higher motivational power than main reasons for such an action.
The primary reason however is frequently overlooked. Any biologist knows that the main reason for conservation and preservation of apex predators is to ensure a stable community. Without a top down effect, predation, the consumers grow unchecked until they outgrow their respective niche and invade other species niches. A popular example of such a situation is the white tailed deer. The north was once home to tertiary and quaternary consumers such as bears, coyotes, bobcats and wolves. From over hunting and extremely successful removal efforts, these predators are all but gone from eastern American woodlands. Without check the white tailed deer population became far too large for the communities which it inhabits, and thus began to eat food outside its normal diet. As a result, the diversity of plants in any given woodland has dropped by about 90% of what it was 400 years prior. As humans it is our duty to rectify this situation even if it takes a catchy slogan with little more than face value to make the public interested.