Spotted Hyenas
🇿🇦 South Africa
The spotted hyena or hyaena (Crocuta crocuta) is listed as Least Concern in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2014) with a current population trend that is decreasing.
In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.
—Baba Dioum, Senegalese poet, ecologist and environmentalist, in a speech made in 1968 to the general assembly of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Similarly:
We only protect what we love, we only love what we understand, and we only understand what we are taught.
—Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker, author, and environmentalist
