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We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.

With today's mass media obsession, it's good to be able to raise awareness about our environment.

We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

The scientific community should work as hard as possible to address major issues that affect our everyday lives such as climate change, infectious diseases and counterterrorism; in particular, 'clean energy' research deserves far higher priority. And science and technology are the prime routes to tackling these issues.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.