Can you think of a situation where we deliberately want to make a species extinct? How would you justify it?
Human effort to eradicate disease-causing organisms (Poliovirus). This situation may appear when alien species are introduced unintentionally or deliberately into an area. Some of them may become invasive and cause damage to indigenous species. Example: Nile perch introduced into lake Victoria in East Africa led to the extinction of 200 species of cichlid fish in the lake. The introduction of African catfish Clarias gariepinus for aquaculture is threatening the indigenous catfishes in rivers of India.
