“You have to save the habitat, you have to save the population - not individual animals. What you want to save is the foundation, the basic infrastructure from which resources are produced. You can't save Fifi and Boo-Boo and Thumper.”
Ted Nugent
“A population like this couldn't stand too many years with only a couple of animals born into it.”
Chris Slay
“This population of right whales is one of the most endangered populations of large mammals anywhere in the world. This is our white rhino. This is our giant panda.”
“Genetics is very much about having large numbers of animals so you can select the elite population and multiply them up to produce the next generation effectively.”
Alastair Nelson
“Between the time we proposed to list these animals as threatened and now, we've discovered the population is in a more delicate situation than we had assumed.”
Brian Gorman
“A large proportion of the global population is in this region, and beyond that there is a diversity of animals that are thought to be important in the generation of these pandemic viruses.”
Malik Peiris
“While these animals are in trouble, there is not sufficient justification to list the Puget Sound population under the ESA.”
Bob Lohn
