Today's extremely spicy take is that endangered species protection is a very expensive national vanity project
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It's not about philosophy, it's about incentive structures needlessly leading to the destruction of resources.
Uh huh, that is the definition of the concept you just linked. Feel free to actively connect that to the current conversation via some sort of argument or claim
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The elephant stock of a nation is the public resource. Poachers have an interest to harvest said resource for money, but cannot legitimately own the resource, so have zero interest/ability to ensure their continued existence. Either let the state manage the resource, or privatize
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The percentage of endangered species in decline due to poaching is very small, but a priori it's reasonable to imagine that they're more likely to serve a critical function than a species that's failing to thrive due to e.g. competition from invasive species or habitat loss
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