CEO, World Land Trust (www.worldlandtrust.org)
Today’s Date: 3 December 2007
1. What interaction with an animal and/or nature in your life has had the biggest impact on you?
Far too many to list, but first memorable one was age 6, discovering a lizard (Lacerta vivipara) in my sand pit. Since then numerous others, dependent on time, place and circumstances. Wildlife and nature have simply had the biggest impact on my life than any other.
2. Did you have a favorite place in the great outdoors during your childhood?
Depends on how you define childhood. But from 9-15 it would have been a local oak-wood, after that a sewage farm (birdwatching)
Now? Dry Chaco of Paraguay
3. As a former zookeeper, I would love to know what your favorite animal is and why?
Have never had a favourite but tend to side with the unloved animals of the world – amphibians, reptiles, bats etc. Have a special passion for European Brown Hare
4. What do you think is the greatest environmental challenge facing us now, and what do you think will be the greatest challenge in the future?
a) human population
b) human population
5. If you could give one piece of advice regarding the environment and our natural resources, what would it be?
Persuade governments that human population increase is a very serious threat.
Thanks to my sister Michelle McIlroy for designing the logo!
December 18, 2007
Loh Chi Leong
Executive Director, Malaysian Nature Society
Today’s Date: 5th December 2007
1. What interaction with an animal and/or nature in your life has had the biggest impact on you?
It would have to be a visit to a palm forest on a mountain top in what is now the Endau Rompin National Park in Johor, Malaysia. It is an ageless place where you can see the balance of the ecosystem very clearly and things remain unchanged for years.
2. Did you have a favorite place in the great outdoors during your childhood?
The beach and mangrove forests of Port Dickson, Malaysia. Unfortunately most of that is severely degraded today.
Now? It would still have to be Endau Rompin National Park.
3. As a former zookeeper, I would love to know what your favorite animal is and why?
It would be the Grey Squirrel primarily because I enjoy interacting with an intelligent and relatively un-shy animal.
4. What do you think is the greatest environmental challenge facing us now, and what do you think will be the greatest challenge in the future?
Our immediate emergency has to be climate change which threatens our environment, our food security, water availability and species survival. The challenge for the future is to reduce our impact of ecological footprint which can only be done if we curb rampant consumerism and wastage as well as take steps to reduce or control population growth. The truth is that the Earth’s ability to support us and our lifestyle is finite.
5. If you could give one piece of advice regarding the environment and our natural resources, what would it be?
That we must take responsibility of the problem and act in our own lives to reduce impact and lobby corporations and governments for more sustainable practices.
Today’s Date: 5th December 2007
1. What interaction with an animal and/or nature in your life has had the biggest impact on you?
It would have to be a visit to a palm forest on a mountain top in what is now the Endau Rompin National Park in Johor, Malaysia. It is an ageless place where you can see the balance of the ecosystem very clearly and things remain unchanged for years.
2. Did you have a favorite place in the great outdoors during your childhood?
The beach and mangrove forests of Port Dickson, Malaysia. Unfortunately most of that is severely degraded today.
Now? It would still have to be Endau Rompin National Park.
3. As a former zookeeper, I would love to know what your favorite animal is and why?
It would be the Grey Squirrel primarily because I enjoy interacting with an intelligent and relatively un-shy animal.
4. What do you think is the greatest environmental challenge facing us now, and what do you think will be the greatest challenge in the future?
Our immediate emergency has to be climate change which threatens our environment, our food security, water availability and species survival. The challenge for the future is to reduce our impact of ecological footprint which can only be done if we curb rampant consumerism and wastage as well as take steps to reduce or control population growth. The truth is that the Earth’s ability to support us and our lifestyle is finite.
5. If you could give one piece of advice regarding the environment and our natural resources, what would it be?
That we must take responsibility of the problem and act in our own lives to reduce impact and lobby corporations and governments for more sustainable practices.
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