Gee, this looks like a good cause.
I’m not being cynical for once. I’m well aware that we are going to lose a huge percentage of the world’s species over the next few decades, so it is, of course, arbitrary to choose certain species that we find more beautiful for whatever reasons, and save them. But so what? Cheetah’s are so cool. Let’s save them. And if we need a scientific excuse to let ourselves off off the perverbial Sophie’s Hook, I’m sure the cheetah qualifies as a keystone species anyway. But, let’s save them because they’re so cool. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to put the graphic on this here blog.
My friend used to ask, ‘Why doesn’t anyone ever want to save the krill?’ My other friend used to get enraged over the tactics Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd used to (still does perhaps) go to to save seal pups just because they were cute. His words, not mine. But I’ll say this: seal pups can never hold a candle to cheetahs in my universe. I mean, come on. Tasmanian devils are cuter than seal pups, and at least they’re endangered.