[hexscrews]

Wouldn't xenocide be a more apt description? A quick search for genocide gives the definition of:

"the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation."

While xenocide is described as:

xenocide (plural xenocides)

The killing of a stranger or foreigner. (science fiction) The genocide of an entire alien species. (US, colloquial) The intentional killing of an entire foreign (plant or animal) species.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xenocide

Either is fine really, just seems like a semantic curiosity.

[xkjkls]

Probably -- the problem is that no one actually knows the word xenocide who isn't an Orson Scott Card fan.

[garmaine]

Why? Genocide is by derivation the killing or wiping out of a genetic population. Why can’t that be applied to purposeful extinction of an animal species?