Point well taken, assuming that there is some mechanism for monitoring and protection available. I was thinking of a species of angiosperm existing as thousands of individuals atop a single peak in, e.g., Peru, vs. a congener that occurs as scattered plants or small populations along the length of the Andes. One well placed logging camp could extirpate the former in a single day, the other could survive many logging camps. Thomas G. Lammers Classification, Nomenclature, Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Campanulaceae, s. lat. Science is not a sacred cow.
Science is a horse.
Don't worship it.