| Sumario: | The article examines Willis Jenkins's essay "Migrations of the Sacred," focusing on how religious ethics can reframe climate justice to include multispecies values, particularly through the lens of species migration and extinction. It highlights the vulnerability of migratory species like the Red Knot shorebird and monarch butterflies to climate-induced disruptions, emphasizing the need to move beyond conventional, individualistic species concepts toward relational, processual understandings of species and ecosystems. The discussion critiques narrow genetic definitions of extinction, especially in light of controversial de-extinction efforts by biotech companies, and explores the cultural and spiritual significance of species as dynamic, evolving entities with moral value. The article also considers the concept of cultural keystone species (CKS) and Indigenous narratives, such as the Skywoman story, as frameworks for fostering multispecies ethical relationships and value transformations that challenge human exceptionalism in environmental thought.
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