Scientific Studies Are Not The Way To Stop Extinctions, Not For Tigers, Not For Almost All Other Wildlife

                                       Scientific studies are not what saves species from extinction. Protecting wildlife and their habitat is what does. Proclaiming scientific studies are necessary to protect tigers or other endangered species from extinction misses the point. The fundamental threat worldwide is the continued failure to protect wildlife and their habitat.
                                       Scientific studies might be good for generating donations for an organization, or for obtaining grants and employment for an elite, but that does not necessarily make them valuable or useful. A few species are faced with diseases that threaten their survival and do require study. But  worldwide, the mass extinction that is taking place right now, the unraveling of biodiversity that threatens the very survival of humans, is caused by the continued loss of habitat and wildlife and the enormous failure to protect both. Governments must become far more involved than they are now, and take over the handling of this crisis. It cannot continue to be left in the hands of highly inadequate and often exploitative nonprofit entities and a few equally self serving for profit animal related media and other conglomerates. Governments do not hesitate to spend trillions on ways to kill each other, but expend little effort and funding to protect the natural world upon which we all depend.