Endangered Species Quotes

Just like birds, hunters know no borders.

Our forest policy is not to preserve forests because they are beautiful—though that is a good in itself—not to preserve them because they are refuges for wild creatures of the wilderness—though that is a good in itself—but rather to conserve them in order to guarantee a steady and continuous supply of timber, grass, and above all, water.

I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist. I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.

Human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.

When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.

For the most part we don’t have an immediate impact on the species that surrounds us. But we do have an immediate impact on their habitat which determines whether they survive on in some cases shift their ground.

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.

Bindi's been filming with us since she first hatched.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.

I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.

Yes, I've often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers... I am still alive!

I desperately want to visit the Galapagos and meet some giant tortoises.

I'm thrilled to be partnered up with SeaWorld.

Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a small thing to ask at this point. There is only four percent of old growth left. Ninety-six percent of it has been cut down.

People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

All the rhinos are dead, for the most part. I think that's really sad.

Years ago, it was pretty hard to get people to empathize even a little bit with scaly, cold-blooded critters; now, thanks a lot to good PR from television, it is easier to get the message of reptile conservation and tolerance across. We have a lot to be thankful to reptiles for, not the least of which is their control of rodents.

Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins.

Orangutan babies are like human babies: helpless.

Despite my great disappointment in American foreign policy, I am very proud of the American tradition of wild land conservation. It is the best tradition and example of land conservation in the world. It goes back a long way.

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.

My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders.