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Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) reserves. We put…

— Kristy Hinze

“We differ from other large mammals, but not much from rodents, in the great variety of habitats we now occupy and in the population…

— Stephen Oppenheimer

“at least a fifth of all mammalian species are bats.”

— Karen Shanor

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way…

— Steve Irwin

Most people are surprised when they hear my somber figures: we know of 2 million species of plants, animals and microorganisms, and we can…

— E. O. Wilson

You know when you work with animals you have to do so very carefully, species by species.

— Niki Caro

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.

— Sylvia Earle

“wild animals in captivity and humans in civilization share an important quality: we are both examples of species living outside their natural habitats.”

— John Durant

There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION…

— David M. Raup

In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still.

— Patrick Bergin

“Ten thousand years ago, humans plus their pets and livestock accounted for about 0.1% of the terrestrial vertebrate biomass inhabiting the earth; we now…

— Daniel J. Levitin

On the intimate level, anyone who has loved a companion animal knows the uniquely wonderful experience these 'other nations' provide, and their important presence…

— April Gornik