Genetics is very much about having large numbers of animals so you can select the elite population and multiply them up to produce the next generation effectively.

You have to save the habitat, you have to save the population - not individual animals. What you want to save is the foundation, the basic infrastructure from which resources are produced. You can't save Fifi and Boo-Boo and Thumper.

A large proportion of the global population is in this region, and beyond that there is a diversity of animals that are thought to be important in the generation of these pandemic viruses.

While these animals are in trouble, there is not sufficient justification to list the Puget Sound population under the ESA.

Population and immigration are very difficult issues to discuss. Democrats and Republicans alike - for very different reasons - avoid it,

A population like this couldn't stand too many years with only a couple of animals born into it.