Alan Bennett Quotes

Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?

For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victims of vicious government extermination programs. By the time the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, only a few hundred of these once-great predators were left in the lower 48 states.

Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.

Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.

I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.

The verdict is for the trumpeter swan and against the army. The army will have to find another nesting place.

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

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

Trophy hunters are not Everyman. These world-traveling endangered-species shooters are a far cry from the hunters who spend weekends in the American outback near their suburban or rural homes.

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.

People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

I don't want Daddy's passion to ever end. I want to help endangered wildlife just like he did.

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

We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry about polar bears disappearing or whatever, it's like, 'Well that's life, things will come and go, we'll find new species.'

It's so fantastic that Prince William has championed African wildlife. He's putting his back into it - and one thing the royal family is brilliant at is getting people to cough up.

There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.

My job, my mission, what I have been put on this planet for is to save wildlife.

Extinction is forever!

We thought it was a very good idea in this day and age of threat to biodiversity….we believe the scope for ecotourism is great.

If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.

As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject in school that I was incredibly passionate about.