It might be claimed that such a bio-ontological analysis as the foregoing is academic, and of little import for real conservation practice. After all, conservation biology is an applied field, and gains nothing if good conservation is not advanced by theory. How, then, would a scaled-down conservation look different from what is now practiced? One way of marking the differences is by way of analysis of actions and practices that are currently taking place. We will call this the negative critique. Are there any activities currently being performed under the name of conservation that would be brought into question if assessed from an organismic perspective? First, we will examine activities that would likely be evaluated differently if such an ecological downscaling was adopted. Then we will present a vision of what a more positive organismic conservation might include.