Please consider the following hypothetical:
Would you take 3 million USD in exchange for allowing the immediate and irreversible extinction of pandas globally?
If you take the deal, you get 3 million USD immediately (no strings attached), however... all pandas will immediately vanish. If you don't take the deal, you get nothing but the pandas get to live happily ever after for now.
By all pandas, I mean ALL PANDAS. So all the variations of pandas, all of them whether they are in a zoo, kept illegally as a pet, or in the wilderness on any continent anywhere on the planet. If you take the deal, there will not be a SINGLE ONE of those black and white things on the face of the planet. I have no doubt that many tears will be shed.
Here are some facts about the ecological and economic value of pandas:
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endange ... ant_panda/
https://onekindplanet.org/animal/panda-giant/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_panda
What do you say? Would you take the deal?