Saving the owls isn't even related to world energy production, it has more to do with habitat destruction. Conservation effort amounts to not cutting down all the damn trees. Cutting down trees has absolutely NO bearing on poverty. The lumber industry reforests their own damn trees now, and they cut down those damn trees so they can keep their damn jobs and the freight industry keeps their damn jobs and the lumber still reaches Home Depot so they get to keep their damn jobs. And in addition to keeping their damn jobs they are enabled to hire more people so they - I'm spelling this out to you - make enough money to get out of poverty. And all these people get to keep their damn jobs without killing the damn birds!