Conundrum

Idle speculation being easier than investigation, do the populations of concerned environmentalists and (believing) evolutionists have much overlap? Put another way, if one believes the universe is more than 10 billion years old and life forms on earth are more than 1 billion years old, and ever changing, evolving with new species arising and replacing older ones, are we fighting "city hall" in trying to save endangered species? Wouldn't conservation be more appealing to religious fundamentalists who view life as static? On the other hand, if Christians believe God gave Man dominion over the Earth, then it's our right to wipe out things, species, "lower life forms" which offend us. Am I stripping the bark off the wrong tree?