Making the connection: environmentalism as a family value

What have you learned about conservation on this trip? Why is it important? Jesse Isenhart : I learned that it is very important to support the local people because you are taking away the land where they would be hunting or getting wood or grazing their animals. If you don’t bring in local people and offer new opportunities, they might want to get back by poaching animals and not follow the best rules for conservation, which will hurt their families in the long-term. I also learned that by protecting rhinos or pandas, you protect many other endangered animals, and their environment. Like by protecting the rhino you also protect the other "big 5 species", like lions, leopards, elephants, and cape buffalo. And by protecting pandas, you are saving golden cats, musk deer, leopard cats, weasels, pheasants, golden monkeys, and many others. Conservation is important because I wo...

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