Environmental Ethics -- restoration vs leave the wild alone

[MikeNovack]

Are rhino population allowed to decline more? Are rhino populations already below the 50% allowance and people have to rebuild them in some unclear way? When are they at the exact 50% level?

I am moving this to start another topic, because it is a a topic all to its own among radical environmentalists. Should we attempt to restore damage we have done, do we even know enough how to do that properly, or should it be left to Nature to restore what can be restored bu natural processes. Leave the wild to the wild.

Full disclosure -- I am on the BoD of an organization trying to restore C. dentata (breed American chestnuts with enough blight tolerance to survive in the forest.