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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.

My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders.

If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.

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.

To those who have always wondered how they might best serve the wider world, wildlife conservation is, at its core, one of the purest forms of giving.

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

What we should be doing is saving habitats, not single species, no matter what their cuteness factor.

Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild.