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I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.

We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.

We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.

Endangered species are our friends.

I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.

We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.

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

We have chosen to bring future generations into this world of rising seas and warming temperatures, droughts and floods, heat waves and wildfires, a world in which one in four mammals and one in eight birds are at risk of disappearing forever. While the damage we've done is irreversible, that doesn't give us the right to do nothing.

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.