One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.
People need to look at wildlife conservation in its totality. As soon as you lose the apex predator, it has harmful consequences right down the food chain.
Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
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.
So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.
What we should be doing is saving habitats, not single species, no matter what their cuteness factor.
Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions.
If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.