Maura Tierney Quotes

We wish to firmly demonstrate to the world our determination to eliminate all forms of illegal trade in ivory. Poachers and illegal trades in ivory must know that their days are numbered.

In Africa, the rangers shoot poachers.

The illegal wildlife trade has an unacceptable human cost for those who have lived for centuries in harmony with wildlife.

You can't just go and collect animals from the wild. It's totally illegal.

Our elephants are under siege because of an illegal international market that has driven ivory prices in the region up significantly. I call upon the international community to join us in this fight.

A vicuna alive is worth more than one dead. Now it is like a goldmine.

The poachers were using heavy weapons. It was a real war. I realize this is what I wanted to do.

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

I saw firsthand the devastating consequences of poaching. I saw elephants with ivory hacked from their faces and the lengths private parks go to protect their precious wildlife.

In the 1970s, Safari Club International asked the federal government to approve its import of 1,125 not-yet-killed trophies of 40 endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans and tigers, according to the Humane Society of the United States.

Currently poaching threatens the very existence of the African Elephant, and my worry is that if we do not act NOW, we could be looking at a future in which this iconic species is wiped out.

We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's time now.

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

I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.

I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport.

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference - she saved the gorillas.

China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish.

I know that Daddy had an important job. He was working to change the world so everyone would love wildlife like he did. He built a hospital to help animals, and he bought lots of land to give animals a safe place to live.

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

We need more people with military background [in the conservation field]. The big problem is that the wildlife organizations hate to be seen as militaristic. But people in the United States don't understand the nasty people [poachers] you're dealing with. You have to deal with them in like manner.

The mountain gorilla faces grave danger of extinction - primarily because of the encroachments of native man upon its habitat - and neglect by civilized man, who does not conscientiously protect even the limited areas now allotted for the gorilla's survival.

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.

I want to be a Tiger.