You mask pride with words like compassion.
Yes, these creatures you wish to protect are nothing special.
Like cattle they must be bred to suit the environment and not their own wishes.
It's pride that makes you blind to the truth.
The truth that even as long lived as you are, you will remain only a footnote in history and that it was I that allowed your inpure birth.
Only for a future purer offspring,
I might have been too optimistic about that chance