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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have more endangered species here in our islands than any other state in the country.
It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and call my home.
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
I often laugh and say I should go down to the Department of the Interior and register as an endangered species. I'm a gay man over 60 and I'm alive.
I'm interested only in buying land in my native Hawaii so that one day I can live there and have the space to rescue animals.
I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
In every aspect of my life, I live under the protection of and in accordance to the laws of this nation. At the end of the day, it's a wildlife biological fact and a conservation fact that the game must be managed. There's only so much habitat, i.e. food, out there.
Endangered species are our friends.
We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.
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.