The gains made by better management and technology are still being outpaced by the environmental impacts of population and economic growth. We are on…

- Klaus Topfer

We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit.

- Klaus Topfer

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

- Klaus Topfer

Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered by …

- Klaus Topfer

It is important to recognize that behind the razzmatazz of consumerism, we all remain dependent on basic natural resources - land, air, water and bio…

- Klaus Topfer

I am a great supporter of bionics and this diversity in nature, this genetic diversity, is not available for free. We, as industrialized nations, hav…

- Klaus Topfer

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

- Klaus Topfer

That's precisely the reason we need less paper and more concrete political decisions - the protection of endangeres species is not some luxury item b…

- Klaus Topfer

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

- Klaus Topfer