Animal Quote by Robert Bateman

“Naming species is not big science. It is like mapmaking or dictionary work and, on its own, of relatively little use. But it is…

— Rob Dunn

“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

Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will reduce the…

— Achim Steiner

It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And yet, the…

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

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

— David Foreman

If you don't know about wildlife, you're not going to be interested. You're not going to care about protecting it.

— Michaela Strachan

The protection of biodiversity and, therefore, of endangered species is an issue to which I attach a great deal of importance.

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

“Wildlife conservation is always a race against time. As zoologists and botanists explore new areas, scrabbling to record the mere existence of species before…

— Mark Carwardine

“In more recent years, I've increasingly reported on specific cases where the interests of individual animals seem to conflict with the goal of biodiversity…

— Emma Marris

The byproduct of the main thrust to protect the biodiversity of a given place is that you get especially young people out to the…

— Douglas Tompkins

Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me.

— Corneille Ewango

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

— Alan Clark