Whether it's exploring the woods around where I grew up, or even today exploring the coastal habitats and environments where I live in New England, or in a remote wilderness we're featuring in one of my series - I love to be in the field and I love to explore.

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

I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.

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.

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.

The natural resources we've depended on, if the places where they exist are not stable, our own livelihood and our health is put at risk.

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