Quotes About Conservation

If Dicerorhinus sumatrensis has a future

it's estimated the population has shrunk by sixty percent just in the last two decades.

vaccinated every single condor—today there about four hundred

Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS BUSY SAWING OFF THE LIMB ON WHICH IT PERCHES.

If you want to think about why humans are so dangerous to other species, you can picture a poacher in Africa carrying an AK-47 or a logger in the Amazon gripping an ax, or, better still, you can picture yourself, holding a book in your lap.

A paper published in Nature by the former head of the One Tree Island Research Station, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, predicted that if current trends continue, then by around 2050 visitors to the Great Barrier Reef will arrive to find "rapidly eroding rubble banks.

Coral sex is a rare and amazing sight.

IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS BUSY SAWING OFF THE LIMB ON WHICH IT PERCHES.

ninety percent of all species on earth had been eliminated.

If you want to think about why humans are so dangerous to other species, you can picture a poacher in Africa carrying an AK-47 or a logger in the Amazon gripping an ax, or, better still, you can picture yourself, holding a book on your lap.

Rhino horns, which are made of keratin

stored inside of them, in frigid clouds of nitrogen, are cell lines representing nearly a thousand species.

Suci, a Sumatran rhino, lives at the Cincinnati Zoo

A sign in the Hall of Biodiversity offers a quote from the Stanford ecologist Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS BUSY SAWING OFF THE LIMB ON WHICH IT PERCHES.

The anthropologist Richard Leakey has warned that "Homo sapiens might not only be the agent of the sixth extinction, but also risks being one of its victims." A sign in the Hall of Biodiversity offers a quote from the Stanford ecologist Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS BUSY SAWING OFF THE LIMB ON WHICH IT PERCHES.

with the exception of humans, all the great apes today are facing oblivion.

It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all freshwater mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all mammals, a fifth of all reptiles, and a sixth of all birds are headed toward oblivion.

The way forward is not simply to make corporations more accountable or to set up regulative bureaucracies; it is not even a matter of recognizing full citizenship for the 'coloured', 'elderly', 'disabled', 'women', or 'queer' through liberal pluralist policy. Likewise, the conservation of a few 'pristine' patches of nature at the margins of urban capitalism will have little effect on the collapse of biodiversity.

Take care of the earth and she will take care of you.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Leave the world in better conditions in wich you found it." [Misattributed to Baden Powell the English mathematician and Church of England priest. Properly attributed Sir Robert Baden-Powell founder of the Scout Movement]

We are losing our environment so rapidly.

The planet's resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

It's important not to lose a ball. It's rare for the team to lose the ball. You have to be careful.