I'm all for language preservation (or maybe it's conservation, not to be confused with conversation XD) but it's not like language is a static thing either. I'm not sure what you're referring to (I'm assuming there was some event that made it into some news) but I usually find that the people who want to "preserve" anything seem to basically just don't want anything to change at all ever.
I really should have just studied linguistics at uni instead of biology and multimedia or whatever it's called now