I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

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

One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

The trust we build over the years if of tremendous help to me when I start in a new project and need to find associates.

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

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%.