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my first exposure to Wildlife like most people well actually I have to tell you I went to school to study Wildlife not as a get-rich quick scheme it it's it's true that was not the idea I went there because I loved animals and I think that most people who get into biology and conservation biology do exactly that and that's the reason that we so often fail in our work because in the end saving things is more about people than it is about animals in any event my early exposure to Wildlife came in front of theaters and the television and one of the first classes was with Bambi and I think you all remember the story of Bambi uh it was a complicated story a drama about the struggles of Bambi Mr possum and Thumper and all of their friends but my childhood takeaway was of the hunter the man who shot Bambi's mom and my takeaway was is that this was a bad man and it was a simple problem with a simple solution find out who's destroying Wildlife find out who's destroying wildlife habitats and you outlaw it you're done I could be a conservation biologist you could be a conservation biologist we could all go on and do that work but it's a little more complicated than that I had the privilege of growing up in Southern California with Wildlife virtually at my fingertips so it was only natural once I decided I was not going to shoot them sorry about the gunshot um that I would go to work for the San Diego Zoo where I could take care of animals and it was there I was PR presented with the remarkable opportunity to work with an extraordinary bird the recovery of the California condor conservation biologists presented with a simple problem there were only 22 Condors found a really good solution we bred them just as fast as we could and turned them loose now there's 380 of them and we're all set right wrong the California condor is no closer to recovery today than it was when we started the real threat to the future of the California condor is lead poisoning and lead poisoning remains a part of the environment even today with the Arabian Orcs when it was extra pated from Oman it was a simple problem with a simple solution the Sultan of Oman band hunting under the penalty of death I might add Zeos bred a lot of orex and for 30 years and with millions of dollars we kept turning them loose then 90% of the reserve was opened up to oil exploration and today the wild Orcs in Oman is no more the failure of so many of these single species conservation program should be a signal to conservation biologists pardon me there seems to be one one exception though and that's the remarkable recovery of the paragan Falcon studied and bred for years and released in droves this bird's becoming more and more common in our skies but I think if you examine it close more closely you'll find that the paragan Falcon is recovering not from captive breeding but because we banned DDT and DDT was only banned when scientists discovered in their studies of what it was doing to animals that it might not be all that good for people either in 1995 I had the opportunity go and work in northeastern Madagascar and on my first trk across the masw peninsula I just discovered this little community of ananal no running water no electricity no written history a group of people virtually on the edge of nowhere and in 1997 I was given the job of going back and living in ananal to teach them about conservation but like most of conservation it was not going to be as simple as you think I was funny looking right I spoke in a language they didn't understand and I was very threatening one villager pulled me aside and he told me they believe that you will eat small children and steal the spirits of adults as I looked at the photo I realized this is how most conservationists look to everyone else in the world we speak in a language you don't really understand and the things we're telling you seem to be a threat to your way of life that needs to change being different made it very difficult for me it was hard to integrate but I noticed this little boy one day hiding in the bushes behind me I put my hand behind my back and counted in gasi 1 two three until over a period of hours and even days Elon and I became friends we became dear friends and fell in love with each other enough so that by the time it came time for me to leave Onan Bal his mom met me as I exited the community with Elon his bags packed and asked me to take him home with me I've never felt like I could adequately explain to his mom or to Elon why he had to stay and I had to go it was only a short time later that I heard that a huge storm the mother of all storms had hit Northeastern Madagascar and it had catastrophic consequences for the village of ananau this storm literally wiped onano off the map I went back to all of the organizations who had supported my work work over the years and they were all conservation groups and they said no we can't help you're a biologist and this is about people and that's when I realized our strategy with conservation had to change um no one would pay for me to go back and help and find my friends and do any work and it described underlined for me the disconnect between what we do in conservation biology and the reality of how people live all over the world so as I said what I took away from that was the realization that we had to connect better I carried my memories of Elon and the change in my conservation philosophy onto a new program with the Eastern monarch butterfly this remarkable butterfly migrates through North America and ends up in central Mexico a migration Beyond description it will Encompass an entire year take five to six generations to complete and in the end they will have covered 5 to 6,000 miles these butterflies begin to arrive in the high mountains of the siar Madres in mishaan right around DIA deos moros The Day of the Dead ceremonies are launched by the arrival of the monarch butterfly who they believe from from the time of Aztec that lost loved ones would return in the form of a butterfly gradually these butterflies begin to coat the vegetation and to fill the sky with orange and black snowflakes like in any good storm that begin to blot the sky from our view ultimately they begin to cover the oaml fur trees from the top to the bottom in a rich cloak of ore that's able to change from gold to Silver only 20 years ago 1 billion monarch butterflies migrated into Central Mexico 530 tons of butterflies would coat the forest for the winter with their wings come springtime this beautiful cloak would slip off the tree in a roar of millions upon millions of wings as the butterflies take to the air this is a ride of spring to be reveled in a ride of spring that occurs nowhere else on Earth but in the oml fur Forest these oml fur forests have been important not only to the migration of the butterfly but to the Aztecs the pupin and the masas and the people of our time but these forests are threatened not just by illegal loggers this tree was not cut by loggers this tree was cut for fuel and will leave the forest one branch at a time an army of people carrying out wood to cook and stay warm that resulted in so much deforestation that just this last spring a mountain slid down on the tiny community of angen Gail killing 17 people and wiping out hundreds of homes most of that wood is destined for a fire that looks just like this one it's a very inefficient fire it's a dangerous fire creating thousands of awful childhood Burns and mama and her children in the course of a normal cooking day will inhale the equivalent of 5 to seven packages of cigarettes a day globally 1.7 million women and children die every year from the effects of these indoor cooking fires the impact on global Forest Rivals that of all commercial logging combined it's not all that great for the butterflies either much like poking holes in your blanket at home home the thinning of the forest prevents it from holding the heat that's necessary to sustain the butterflies through a cold winter and they die by the millions the solution might be a simple one at least part of the solution a stove a stove with a chimney to vent the smoke outside and reduce respiratory ailments by 40% a stove that reduces fuel use by 70% and makes their Harvest more sustainable a stove that encloses the fire so that children and adults are not prone to Burns and finally a stove that provides for a family with now their needs better met a connection to a butterfly a butterfly worth saving for both its spiritual and its economic value once this is done we have a simple solution that addresses deforestation and climate change it affects health and safety affects watersheds and Timber resources butterflies and a way of life life you'll remember the emotional shock in Bambi was when Bambi's mom was shot but the real threat to all the wildlife was a forest fire hunting is easy to ban forest fires are not and around the world we have a forest fire we know beyond a doubt that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will be desecrated for oil much as the Arabian orex Reserve was if we decide that we need it years of work done by conservationists and by organizations and governments will be undone if we believe we need the resources that are there the answer has to be in sustainable community-based conservation and not the community-based conservation that hires a guard or trains a guide community-based conservation that improves the health and well-being of every individual and every family only then will our conservation efforts have the long-term value to protect Bambi and the forest we all have to recognize that in the end the chore ahead of us now is not just to save a species or a bit of habitat but to save ourselves and a future for our children thank you very much