The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.

The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.

Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.

To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.