In contrast, a new environmental ethic would hold that nature has "intrinsic" value, or value as an end in itself. (For surveys of this work, see Ouderkirk 1998, Wenz 2000, Light 2002, and Palmer ...

In "What is Conservation Biology?" Michael Soulé discusses several "normative postulates" of conservation biology, including that "biotic diversity has intrinsic value" (Soulé 1985). The idea ...