Jeffrey Corwin (born July 11, 1967) is an American biologist and wildlife conservationist, known to host many TV series including ABC's Ocean Treks with Jeff Corwin.
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I am really sobered by what's happening to ecosystems around our planet and to the wildlife that is to be found there.
We know that when push comes to shove, [we can] drive ourselves to save our planet.
In my heart, ever since I [was] a little kid, I've been an explorer.
I am really inspired when I am in an experience, at the front lines of conservation, and I see someone - a woman, a man, a child, a person - who has given up an opportunity to have a family, an opportunity for financial riches, even an opportunity for security, [to] put their whole life on the line to protect a species.
I think the hardest part about my job is the best part of my job - the travel.
We live in uncertain times when it comes to the future of life on Earth.
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'm glad I'm inspiring somebody.
To be with another scientist and make a discovery and share that with a global audience, or working with bear biologists in Alaska, by helicopter - [it's] really what I've given my whole life to. And I get to do that just about every week.
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.
I love people who have died trying to save wildlife. When I see that passion, that gives me hope.
We are not far away from the point of no return when it comes to life on earth, and we have some radical choices to make.
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.
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.
What drives me is that moment of discovery. I love the unknown.
I'm a biologist. At my core, I'm a naturalist.
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.