Steve Irwin Quotes

Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?

In the 1970s, Safari Club International asked the federal government to approve its import of 1,125 not-yet-killed trophies of 40 endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans and tigers, according to the Humane Society of the United States.

Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

I know that Daddy had an important job. He was working to change the world so everyone would love wildlife like he did. He built a hospital to help animals, and he bought lots of land to give animals a safe place to live.

My job, my mission, what I have been put on this planet for is to save wildlife.

People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.

For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.

Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.

Think about it: You're trying to raise cash to save an endangered animal. You've got orphaned pandas getting 3 trillion YouTube hits, and you've got seals being clubbed over the head by roughnecks. The money flows in. But what about the poor shark?

I love zoo sanctuaries.

Hunted for sport by the rich, then driven from large tracts of its natural habitat by agricultural and housing development, the giant panda deserves better than to be scrubbed from conservation's ledger books through false accounting.

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.

Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian Islands, where I was raised and where I live.