It's not only about…

It's not only about protecting individual species. Life forms never exist in a vacuum, they are intimately connected to multitudes of other organisms that evolved along with them. Take out one part and the entire chain collapses. Our environment can't recover at the speed with which we are wiping out key organisms.
Moreover for every identified species at risk, there are a myriad more that are endangered - many of them flying under the radar and snuffed out without ceremony.
I would love to tell our government to cherish and care for our natural environment for its own sake - it's beauty, diversity, abundance, and the wisdom we can't draw from it but I feel this will fall on deaf ears and blind eyes.
So instead I will say that we need to strengthen, not weaken, this legislation, if only for the sake of our own survival and our future generations. The collapse of our natural ecosystems will impact humans in unforeseen and devastating ways.