Like so many others, Graham Stokes (April 15, 2015) bemoans the attention paid to endangered species of fish in the current drought crisis. Of course, people and the food they eat for survival are more important than any smelt, salmon, steelhead, or sturgeon. Certainly! But are they? Are people really more important than the animals of the earth? Consider what happens when we have destroyed all the natural habitat for wildlife and they become extinct. Will the human animal be next?