There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.
Preventing ongoing extinction of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other threatened species is critically important. By all means, we must set priorities for allocating finite conservation resources.
Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.
Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.
When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90% of its large animals. This was the first significant impact that Homo sapiens had on the planet's ecosystem. It was not the last.