Holmes Rolston III, one of the fathers of environmental ethics, explains his system of "valuing" in "non-anthropocentric" terms. Read about this: http://www.carroll.edu/msmillie/envethics/naturalizingvalues.htm
"According to Rolston, the "classical value theory" is anthopocentric or at least anthropogenic. Rolston describes this as "value apartheid"—the unjustifiable axiological separation of humans from nature. This is inconsistent, when we affirm that humans are not metaphysically different from nature, but axiologically different. There is a second inconsistency when we argue that we cannot know enough about the natural world to know if it is valuable, when we claim on the other hand to know that the values arise."
Read more about Rolston here: http://lamar.colostate.edu/~rolston/Preston.htm
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