We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

It's difficult to protect something if it doesn't have a price.

Most of all, Creation must be protected for its own sake, even if we currently assign no value or an incorrect value to it.

I am a great supporter of bionics and this diversity in nature, this genetic diversity, is not available for free. We, as industrialized nations, have already sinned enough, and we have significantly reduced biodiversity in our countries. But now we expect the poor, less developed countries of the world to preserve their rainforests, mangrove forests and coral landscapes for us at no charge.

Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent.

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

That's precisely the reason we need less paper and more concrete political decisions - the protection of endangeres species is not some luxury item by Gucci or Hermès, for people who have no problems.