Some people believe it is unethical to collect wild animals and plants for display and personal pleasure and that such plants and animals should be left in the wild. Explain why you agree or disagree with this view.
What will be an ideal response?
Evidence supporting those who agree:Around the globe, the legal and illegal trade in wild species for use as pets is a huge and very profitable business. Many owners of wild pets do not know that, for every live animal captured and sold in the pet market, many others are killed or die in transit. This is true for many other wild species as well. Discussion may include the economies that are created by such trade.?Evidence supporting those who disagree:Many people believe that wild species have a right to exist, regardless of their usefulness to us. According to this worldview, we have an ethical responsibility to protect the earth's species from becoming extinct because of our activities, and to prevent degradation of the world's ecosystem services.
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