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Endangered species are our friends.

Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian Islands, where I was raised and where I live.

Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.

If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.

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

I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.

We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.

Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.