It’s just important to me that we don’t think we are better than those animals. And that our job is to make sure we still got ’em. Because eventually, not in our lifetime, but who knows how many generations down the road. Read More
Yeah. Yeah, we’re not going anywhere. But exponentially, every time we make these kinds of decisions in a negative way, we take that much more of the slice of our culture and being off of the face of the earth, you gonna eventually end up with nothing. Read More
You know, if the last of the rhinos is, you know, one rhino species still on the face of the earth, is the world gonna stop turning?… Read More
Absolutely not. But boy, what a failure on our part as the supposedly most intelligent species walking on the face of the earth. Nobody should be able to make those kinds of decisions. I mean, that’s not ours to make. If they fail because they can’t thrive, that’s a whole… Read More
And are we still here?… Read More
We can do away with this one, we don’t need it anymore. Now, we’ve done that, we’ve lost a lot of species on the face of the earth. Read More
‘Cause I heard for so many years like, well, why is that?… Read More
Well, everything is connected in our biological world. There’s a reason we have rhinos, there’s a reason we have Inca terns, there’s a reason we have shoebill storks. There’s a reason for all that. Read More
It’s just one species. Yeah. But it’s all part of the web, as they say. And it’s all part of our being. I don’t know how else to say it, it’s a quality-of-life issue. They all play a role for us. We have to be careful that we’re just not… Read More
You know, you lose that animal, who cares?… Read More
Well, we can’t force ’em to do it, you know?… Read More
So left with great disappointment. The White Oak staff said well, we tried. That’s all we can say. We tried and we failed. So yeah, just watched it disappear. Watched the animal disappear off the face of the earth. You have said all animals contribute to our way of life. Read More
What did you mean?… Read More
You got nothing to talk about. And basically, they didn’t want anything to do with it. And, you know, we tried and it was I think three or four days of heavy negotiations. I mean, this was shuttle diplomacy, I call it. You know, they’re in one room, and we’re… Read More
And then what have you got?… Read More
And that was, to me, a disappointment all the way around. That individuals could basically stop what was going to be an agreed-upon process to save those animals. And just because they didn’t want to do it and lose the animal from their country, they thought it was an iconic… Read More
We tried to save it. We worked very hard, brought ’em in from the Czech Republic and they’re getting wiped out in the wild, like there’s none left, I’m sure now, I’m sure they’re all gone. There was only 12 or 15 left 10 years ago. So I’m certain they’ve… Read More
But there was just something about the animals, he said that’s not a southern white rhino. Even though, you know, you might, at a quick glance, you might say that’s a southern white, it was not. So, you know, just a shame, again, you saw a species disappear in your… Read More
All paid by White Oak to bring all factions together, the captive and the wild population. And basically, the folks in Africa didn’t want any part of it. They didn’t want to take the gauntlet that was handed to them and move the animals out of that intense gorilla activity… Read More
I mean, if you want to go back in the computer and pull it up later because it’s easier to access your article, okay, fine. But don’t gimme that deer in the headlight look like you don’t know who Lydekker was and all of that stuff. So it’s vital, to… Read More