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"When I hear of the destruction of a species,
I feel just as if all the works of some great
writer have perished."
~ Theodore
Roosevelt
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"Biological
diversity is being lost at a rate unequalled since the
appearance of modern ecosystems more than 40 million
years ago. A quarter of all mammals are threatened with
extinction and nearly 70% of the world’s fish stocks
are fully exploited, overexploited or depleted."
-- Royal Society
Each
species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning
of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.
- William H. Schlesinger
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"What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts
were gone, men would die from a great loneliness
of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts,
soon happens to man. All things are connected."
~ Chief Seattle
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"The
bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be
the most destructive invention of the 20th century."
- Philip Shabecoff
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Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury
in our times: it is a survival imperative."
~ Vandana Shiva
"The
primary threat to nature and people today comes
from centralising and monopolising power and control.
Not until diversity is made the logic of production
will there be a chance for sustainability, justice
and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity
is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative."
~ Vandana Shiva
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Uniformity
is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
~ Vandana Shiva
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Many
people are helping to make the world a better
place, but humanity as a whole is making it difficult
for other living creatures that share our planet
to survive.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
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"What
is the nature of a species that knowingly and without
good reason exterminates another?"
- George Small
Once
species become extinct, no corrective legislation can
bring them back—they are gone forever.
- Allen M. Solomon
"Our
moral and ethical responsibility is to protect other
species in the spirit of husbandry rather than destroy
them in and attitude of conquest."
~ Charles Southwick
Something
will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let
the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit
the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books
and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining
members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction;
if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last
clean streams and push our paved roads through the last
of the silence, so that never again will Americans be
free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts,
the stinks of human and automotive waste.
~Wallace Stegner
Even
if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many
of its animal and plant species and this inturn will
reduce the ability of ecosystems to deliver vital services
to human populations. The Red List gives all of us a
practical tool for raising awareness of the biodiversity
crisis and for forging new partnerships within the international
community.
-- Achim Steiner, IUCN Director General
More
than 5,500 large dams impede America's running waters,
leaving less than 2 percent of the country's 3.1 million
miles of rivers and streams flowing free. In the wake
of these river alterations trails a record list of endangered
aquatic species. Two of every three freshwater mussel
species are heading for extinction, or are already there;
half of all crayfish species are imperiled; more than
a third of the country's freshwater fish are in trouble
-- 17 of them missing outright.
-- William Stolzenburg
"Those
who wish to pet and baby wildlife love them, but those
who respect their natures and wish to let them live
their natural lives, love them more."
- Edwin Way Teale
"The
effects of human activities on biodiversity have increased
so greatly that the rate of species extinctions is rising
to hundreds or thousands of times the background level."
-- United Nations Earth Watch (UNEP)
"Without
habitat, there is no wildlife. It's that simple."
- Wildlife Habitat Canada
"An
Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third
millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse
of mankind foretold in sacred scripture. It is the wreckage
of the planet by an exuberantly plentiful and ingenious
humanity."
-- E. O. Wilson
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless
while we learn to use it and come to understand what
it means to humanity.
-- E. O. Wilson
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"Plant genetic resources are seldom 'raw materials';
they are the expression of the current wisdom
of farmers who have played a highly significant
role in the building up of the world's genetic
resource base... As is already happening in my
country, farmers and national genebanks in developing
countries can work together to preserve and expand
crop genetic diversity on behalf of all humanity."
~ Melaku Worede
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"The
world is currently undergoing a very rapid loss of biodiversity
comparable with the great mass extinction events that
have previously occurred only five or six times in the
Earth's history."
-- World Wildlife Fund
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