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Fast Fact Attack: Endangered Species No. 93 – The Jaguar
“Only when the last tree is cut, only when the last river is polluted, only when the last fish is caught, will they realize that you can’t eat money” Native American proverb With destruction levels of...
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Fast Fact Attack: Endangered Species No. 94 – The Golden Lion Tamarin
“In simple terms, the rainforests, which encircle the world, are our very life-support system – and we are on the verge of switching it off.” Charles, Prince of Wales Golden lion tamarins take their...
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Fast Fact Attack: Endangered Species No. 96 – The Black and White Ruffed Lemur
“It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.” Harriet Beecher Stowe The name lemur is taken from the Latin word lemurēs. Lemurēs were...
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Fact Attack: Endangered Species No. 102 – The Aye-aye
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom” Bertrand Russell In many parts of Madagascar, ancient Malagasy legend has...
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Fact Attack: Endangered Species No. 103 – Chinese Water Deer
“We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.” Wallace Stegner You may have noticed how the rare Chinese water deer in the image above...
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Fact Attack: Endangered Species No. 104 – Darwin’s Fox
“Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul” Pythagoras Darwin’s fox is considered an “umbrella species”, and by protecting the primary temperate forests it inhabits, the entire ecosystem can...
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Fact Attack: Endangered Species No. 105 – Northern Muriqui
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he’s been given. But up to now he hasn’t been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry...
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Fact Attack: Endangered Species No. 107 – The Southern Pudú
“Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of...
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Fact Attack: Endangered Species No. 111 – Dorcas Gazelle
“We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of...
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Fact Attack: Endangered Species No. 113 – The Asiatic Lion
“Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books” John Dingell Possibly one of the most...
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