Oh look, fashion couture comes and rips away natural resources and native spiders for wealth. How long was the extraction? They must be caged all day with no comfort.
You'd think so, but golden orb spiders are everywhere here on the Gulf Coast of Mexico. One of the best ways to keep a creature from extinction is to find a way for it to make money. Look at sheep, cows & bees. I'm not saying the quality of life is better in the short term, but in this case, they probably produce more silk & better quality if the spiders are happy.
