Terran Conservationists

While Terrans have always been respectful of other species traditions and cultures, they are also renowned for their curiosity. Their questions can be diplomatic or blunt, even rude at times though they excelled at smoothing over their own blunders. Such as the time they asked the Silvestra why they did not mine their oceans for resources, or when they asked the Tamorins why Kin were not allowed pursue bioengineering.
Many of the Terrans’ questions were varied in topic, it was the Synth who found a reoccurring pattern in the inquiries. Terrans always found ways to question resource acquisition and management, tending to suggest harvesting in mass regardless of environmental damages. Only when a species made clear their value for their own ecology would the Terrans eventually stop brining up large scale resource harvesting.
Before the Frayel war, this habit was assumed to correlate to the nature of Terran homes, that being their world ships and lack of planetary living. The Synth, among other species, believed that Terrans were hyper fixated on resources because they were needed for ship maintenance. During the Frayel war this image of Terran curiosity was corrected.
Terrans held no interest in conservation due to their single minded, species wide, focus on revenge. The Zithrik had decimated their home world, their species and their repository of knowledge. When Terrans found the Zith and their masters, the Frayel, they put every resource at their disposal into fighting their enemy. Nothing was held back, not even their children and elderly. Terrans fought what they called an "absolute war".
This put their defense of the Mythos Government in new light; it had been the Terrans who vouched for their joining the coalition and called for protections of their capitalistic culture; going so far as to share technology that aided in the strip-mining of unused planetary bodies. Terrans were also instrumental in the use of gas giants as fuel depos, the building of what they called "Dyson Sphere" Starships and the use of suicide attacks against the Frayel.
This revelation finally put to rest the confusion surrounding the strange ritual Terrans took part in that had baffled the for years. When a Terran strayed from their religion or encouraged Conservation, they were often sent to be respeciated. Whether the Terran was sent to the Silvestra or any of the other bioengineering experts outside of the Coalition it was for the express purpose of altering the Terran to a new species at which point they had their Terran Citizenship stripped and were ostracized from their species of origin.
While Terrans made a show of respecting other species views on conservation it was a trait entirely unwelcome among their own. It was discovered during the Frayal war that Terrans who rejected respeciation but no longer followed their religious doctrine were sent to work sites that had extremely short life expectancy; a fact that could have had them rejected from the Coalition if it had been uncovered before the war.
Terrans only acceptable form of environmental protection appeared to be their unshakable rule of leaving their home world untouched. No Terran ever returned to Earth. No other species was allowed within the Sol system and the gate ship that once allowed the Terrans to flee their home world was moved three systems away.