I don’t think that’s a problem that zoos and aquariums can address. Although, Paul Ehrlich and Ed Wilson are right, in my opinion, they’re grossly understating. It’s gonna be much worse than that. A very large percentage of the species they’re talking about are invertebrates. That’s where the greatest number of species is. Nevertheless, the number of species that zoos and conservationists in general can hope to preserve amidst the current avalanche of extinction is very small. Nobody knows how many species there are on earth. It’s been argued that about 1,000,500,000 have been named.
