Jack Hanna Quotes

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

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.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

We have more endangered species here in our islands than any other state in the country.

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.

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.

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.

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

Endangered species are our friends.

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.

No more wolves, wilderness or welfare.

If mountain gorillas are to survive and propagate, far more active conservation measures urgently need to be undertaken. The question remains, is it already too late?

I cannot concur with those who advocate saving gorillas from extinction by killing and capturing more free-living individuals only to exhibit them in confinement.

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

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

In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.

Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.

Sumatra has these lush forests and huge, amazing creatures like elephants, orangutans, and tigers. They're disappearing because of industry coming in and cutting down the forests.

The elephant can survive only if forests survive.

Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

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

Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.

Hunted for sport by the rich, then driven from large tracts of its natural habitat by agricultural and housing development, the giant panda deserves better than to be scrubbed from conservation's ledger books through false accounting.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.