Behaviour Quote by Kofi Annan

Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.

— Thomas Eisner

Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs…

— Donella Meadows

We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.

— David Foreman

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

— Klaus Topfer

The value of biodiversity is that it makes our ecosystems more resilient, which is a prerequisite for stable societies; its wanton destruction is akin…

— Johan Rockstrom

We have to create a sustainable environment, worldwide, and we're not doing it. The best thing we can do with the rest of this…

— E. O. Wilson

Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they…

— Helen Clark

It is together that we will be able to save our biodiversity. This is a principle of effectiveness. But it is also a principle…

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the spotted owl,…

— Vandana Shiva

So I think as a biologist I would like us to focus on this planet and finding solutions to sustaining humanity, to improving people's…

— Alice Roberts

“The bottom line answer to the question about why biodiversity matters is fairly simple: The rest of the living world can get along without…

— Sylvia A. Earle

Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent.

— Klaus Topfer