Extinction Crisis Quotes

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.

There is no sense in meddling with the extinction of polar bears, not when so many more pressing human problems await. Until there's ironclad proof of how and why extinction works, and how much evil we've done to hasten it along, I'm going to save my emotional anguish for dying and suffering members of my own species.

There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.

The mountain gorilla faces grave danger of extinction - primarily because of the encroachments of native man upon its habitat - and neglect by civilized man, who does not conscientiously protect even the limited areas now allotted for the gorilla's survival.

A decade down the line, I don't want to sit back and think that I didn't do anything to stop disasters like the extinction of certain species.

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.

Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us.

If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.

We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for.

Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.

The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem.

Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.

Hundreds of species are facing extinction due to human impacts on the environment.

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

We're losing a species every few seconds. We cannot put them back. If we change our mind and say, 'Oops, we made a mistake' - it's too late. This is the world we live with.

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.

In our lifetime, we're going to see fifty percent of the world's species go extinct. We're already seeing this radical rise in the world's temperature that was predicted.

I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis... This time it's us that's doing it.

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.