Many of the medicines we use today, to fight everything from AIDS to cancer, originate as a toxin in an amphibian skin. When we lose these animals, we lose resources. We lose keystone species in the environments where they live.

Many scientists would argue that we are now in what is called Extinction, and it's caused by this perfect extinction storm: climate change, habitat loss, pollution, unsustainable exploitation of species and habitat resources, and of course, human population explosion. All of these factors work together and conspire to drive a species to extinction on our planet, every half an hour.

The challenge is that we live in a time where there's a lot of crap on television.

I am really sobered by what's happening to ecosystems around our planet and to the wildlife that is to be found there.

We live in a time where we have more extinction happening on our planet than since the dinosaurs were wiped out 50 million years ago.

What drives me is that moment of discovery. I love the unknown.

Today, I’m a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn’t have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.