Jay Inslee Quotes

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.

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

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.

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.

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 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.

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.

Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.

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

The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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.

I've already made a substantial commitment to wildlife by putting my land in the easement. It won't be developed. It will remain there in perpetuity - will be there for the wildlife.

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

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

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.

From a conservation issue alone, you'd have to say there are too many badgers. A bigger growth in the badger population is not good for the balance of conservation anyway.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

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

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

National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.

We choose the national park idea because it's really the highest form of protection for landscapes that exists under current law, especially in Chile and Argentina.

To those who have always wondered how they might best serve the wider world, wildlife conservation is, at its core, one of the purest forms of giving.

Steve worked tirelessly to promote conservation, wildlife, and the environment, and his work enabled the plight of endangered species to reach a whole new audience.

When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.