Sometimes we can forget the animal victims of the covert abuse. The destruction of wilderness inevitably leads to animal suffering. Wilderness is the animals' homes. From the ice-caps to the deserts, animals live in these areas. Ecology does not just involve plants.
Animals are as much a part of any given ecological system as are the plant species.
Yet the destruction of the planet will affect non-human animals just as much as it affects the multitude of plant species and the human species. If animal liberation activists want to stop ALL animal suffering, then they must get involved more actively with ecodefense. The defense of ecology. The defense of the animals in that ecological system. Likewise, ecodefense activists need to stop allowing animal abusers to distance the green movement from their natural allies in the animal liberation movement.