Forrest Galante
outdoor adventurer, wildlife biologist, herpetologist, and television personality
Forrest Galante (March 31, 1988–) is an American outdoor adventurer and television personality.
Quotes
edit- it’s so important to understand why these creatures went extinct. What mistakes we as humans made to drive them to extinction and learn from that and implement techniques to avoid that for other species. So, for me, every expedition is a learning process because there’s such an important biological takeaway that we as humans have made. And the best way to learn from them is to experience them.
- There is no cure-all. Every species needs its own management, its own policies, and everything needs its own strategy. There’s no magic button. I take that back. There is a magic button, right? There is one magic button and that is to cease all habitat destruction and hunting practices immediately. But there’s a very big difference between being an optimist and being a realist. And that “magic button” is unrealistic. There’s absolutely no way the entire world stops encroaching on wildlife habitat and taking wildlife. So without that being a possibility, and it’s not, the thing that makes wildlife sciences so difficult is that each animal, whether it’s an insect or a rhinoceros, needs its own management plan.
