What is the worth of a human life? Would saving a human life be worth ending another? What about an animal, such as a chimpanzee? Are we worth more then them? If we are then who is it that determines that worth? There are about 100,000 chimpanzee’s left in the world and they are considered an endangered species, there are slightly over 7 billion humans, thats 7,000,000,000 and 7000 humans for every chimpanzee left alive. Ethics tries to improve and protect the human lifestyle but what about animals such as chimpanzee’s that are so similar to us? Humans are the cause of the worlds 6th’ mass extinction because ethics does not encourage us to protect anything except ourselves. Would sacrificing the life of a chimpanzee just to enhance the odds of survival of a person be ethical? I believe it wouldn’t. I believe that protecting other species, especially endangered ones such as chimpanzee’s is not only ethically correct but also necessary for the survival of the human race.