Well I'm not sure if you have seen this show which I think is called critters n creeps or something along that line. Well anyway this women researches animals that people overlook or fail to care about. Not exactly creatures going extinct but I guess you can say animals that people don't necessarily care about. You talk about funding and benefiting the scientific world but I think she doesn't it out of pure pleasure and free time. Someone like that should do a documentary of some sort. I'm sure there's more people out there like that who would actually study them and record their lives just out of pure joy.