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.
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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.
Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.
In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.
The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.
No species is more important than others.
The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
If we bring together the right people, communities can flourish and wildlife can survive alongside them.
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