Wildlife Tourism Quotes

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

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

In Africa, animals and the natural landscape allow local communities to support themselves, as there is a constant source of money from tourism.

I don't know how well this would get on, but I'd probably live in Africa...as a job, it would probably be a safari guide.

I love traveling and seeing new things, learning the histories of different cultures. But I've always wanted to go to the Galapagos to see the giant turtles.

Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.

The illegal wildlife trade threatens not only the survival of entire species, such as elephants and rhinos, but also the livelihoods and, often, the very lives of millions of people across Africa who depend on tourism for a living.

After a lifetime of nature shows and magazine photos, we arrive at the woods conditioned to expect splendor - surprised when the parking lot does not contain a snarl of animals attractively mating and killing each other.

When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in.

For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate, particularly to places which have amazing wildlife, such as Antarctica, India and Patagonia.

My own experience suggests that where there is tourism, there are tigers. And that's the reality.

I'd love to do a safari holiday somewhere in Africa - maybe Kenya or Tanzania. I have never been, and we've deliberately waited until the children are older so that they could appreciate it, learn something and come back with stories.

To a lot of Africans, seeing an animal is a something of a rarity. So it's a paradox of this sort of parallel life. A safari is an expensive experience and it's adjacent to a place where people are having a very tough time.

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.

Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples.

I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.