Paul Watson Quotes

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

The Endangered Species Act was designed to preserve biodiversity, not enrich trial lawyers and political activists.

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.

A decade down the line, I don't want to sit back and think that I didn't do anything to stop disasters like the extinction of certain species.

Mississippians for the most part appreciate U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service management of our wildlife refuges and other natural resources.

The protection of biodiversity and, therefore, of endangered species is an issue to which I attach a great deal of importance.

Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.

As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways.

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.

In real life, I am trying to save the Steve Irwin wildlife preserve. It's in Australia, up on Cape York, and it's in danger of being strip-mined.

I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.

How can you save the rain forests, the planet's wildlife, without funds?

Biodiversity underpins life on earth. And if we don't look after this biodiversity, if we don't protect it, if we don't actually harness it in the right way, we are threatening our own livelihoods on this planet.

Conservation of any endangered species must begin with stringent efforts to protect its natural habitat by the enforcement of rigid legislation against human encroachment into parks and other game sanctuaries.

National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.

The struggle to save every possible species and ecosystem from the current wave of destruction is worthwhile. One day, perhaps within our lifetimes, they could repopulate a thriving world.

In every aspect of my life, I live under the protection of and in accordance to the laws of this nation. At the end of the day, it's a wildlife biological fact and a conservation fact that the game must be managed. There's only so much habitat, i.e. food, out there.

You might not think of 'conservation' immediately when you think of Russell Crowe, but he is a great conservationist in his own right.