It’s more controversial than you might think.
In 2017, an evolutionary biologist named R. Alexander Pyron ignited controversy with a Washington Postcommentary titled “We don’t need to save endangered species. Extinction is part of evolution.” He wrote: “Conserving a species we have helped to kill off, but on which we are not directly dependent, serves to discharge our own guilt, but little else.”
From Vox
https://www.vox.com/22584103/biodiversity-species-conservation-debate