I think the same point can be conveyed the Don Berry's-Blue Water Hunter's (whether he meant it or not I don't know), the last few lines, where he mentions a memory more permanent than painted stone, we are all part of the cycle. A species becoming extinct or thriving and becoming overpopulated doesn't make a difference.
Humans have always been apex predators and I use that word predaotrs deliberately, we sit up there with sharks, bears all the other top predators, yeah a bear may have claws a shark teeth, but we have a bigger brain thats our weapon; it is a little different.
But we all hunt,we all stalk, we all kill, if you appreciate doing one how could you not appreciate the other.