https://www.livescience.com/which-animals-might-go-extinct-by-2050
https://www.universitymagazine.ca/animals-that-will-be-extinct-by-2050
https://globe-conscious.com/animals-future-extinction
There was an X-Files episode in 1995 about something taking and saving various species.
https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Fearful_Symmetry
"As the agents leave Idaho, Mulder says through narration that he believes alien conservationists were behind the events in Fairfield." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearful_Symmetry_(The_X-Files)#Plot
There is the Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault in Norway. https://seedvault.nordgen.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault#Mission
https://www.croptrust.org/work/svalbard-global-seed-vault
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Svalbard#Longyearbyen
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/20/the-doomsday-vault-seeds-save-post-apocalyptic-world
"But it could potentially preserve much more than seeds. A study in the German chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie this month details the quest to find out how long data stored on DNA could be preserved, and also suggests the vault as the ideal storage location." https://gizmodo.com/the-isolated-vault-that-could-store-our-data-on-dna-for-1687457772
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/09/30/fort-collins-seed-vault
https://www.frozenark.org/what-we-do-overview
https://www.frozenark.org/database , https://www.frozenark.org/the-frozen-ark-blog
https://science.sandiegozoo.org/resources/frozen-zoo , https://science.sandiegozoo.org/resources/saving-species
Suppose a very small amount of powerful people wanted to have a nuclear war that would extinguish most of the life on the planet. Then to gradually rebuild the world into a fascist technocracy or a symphony of Borg like totalitarianism.
The Dr._Strangelove remains as a classic warning as to how just a few madmen can knock everything down in the sandbox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove#Plot
https://www.filmsite.org/drst.html
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/almost-everything-in-dr-strangelove-was-true
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4119-dr-strangelove-the-darkest-room
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-dr-strangelove-1964
