If a small group of animals with no connection to other groups die out due to lack of diversity (the wrangle island mammoths), isn’t saving critically endangered species pointless?

Question

If a small group of animals with no connection to other groups die out due to lack of diversity (the wrangle island mammoths), isn’t saving critically endangered species pointless?

In: Biology

Answer 1

There’s a difference between saving a creature who has effectively evolved themselves into a dead end, and saving species who are endangered because of the rapid changes humans are effecting on the natural world.