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Beverly Joubert: We are truly passionate about the African wilderness and protecting the African wilderness, and so what we've done is we've focused on iconic cats.
Now on the one hand, exhorting us to "drill, baby, drill," because God put those resources into the ground in order for us to exploit them, and on the other, glorying in the wilderness of Alaska's untouched beauty on her hit reality TV show.
And I think that one of the reasons why so many of these groups have retained a link to the past, know their native languages, the songs, the dances, the traditions, I think part of that reason is because of the remoteness, the span and the wilderness of this almost 95 percent intact ecosystem.
It impacts and fragments a larger part of the wilderness, where there is 90 percent reduction of key species, like woodland caribou and grizzly bears, and it consumes even more energy, more water, and produces at least as much greenhouse gas.
And building a pipeline with an industrial highway would change forever this incredible wilderness, which is a true rarity on the planet today.
So, no wilderness, no revelations.
Okay, number two: Go to the wilderness.
They don't have to struggle for it like Jacob wrestling through the night with the angel, or like Jesus in his 40 days and nights in the wilderness, or like Muhammad, not only that night on the mountain, but throughout his years as a prophet, with the Koran constantly urging him not to despair, and condemning those who most loudly proclaim that they know everything there is to know and that they and they alone are right.
I was about 10 years old on a camping trip with my dad in the Adirondack Mountains, a wilderness area in the northern part of New York State.
So thank you. (Applause) It's the fifth time I stand on this shore, the Cuban shore, looking out at that distant horizon, believing, again, that I'm going to make it all the way across that vast, dangerous wilderness of an ocean.
Visible from space, the Okavango Delta is Africa's largest remaining intact wetland wilderness.
Rhinos are airlifted in C130s to find sanctuary in this wilderness.
Here, I discovered something obvious: wilderness is our natural habitat, too.
I'm doing this because we need this information to benchmark this near-pristine wilderness before upstream development happens.
Ten thousand years ago, our entire world was wilderness.
Today, wilderness is all that remains of that world, now gone.
Living in the wilderness is what taught us to speak, to seek technologies like fire and stone, bow and arrow, medicine and poison, to domesticate plants and animals and rely on each other and all living things around us.
Over 50 percent of the remaining wilderness is unprotected.
Over the next 10 to 15 years, we need to make an unprecedented investment in the preservation of wilderness around the world.
To me, preserving wilderness is far more than simply protecting ecosystems that clean the water we drink and create the air we breathe.
So for the last decade, I began seeking out these areas where the concrete yields to forest and the pines turn to cypress, and I viewed all these mosquitoes and reptiles, all these discomforts, as affirmations that I'd found true wilderness, and I embrace them wholly.
What is wilderness worth?
Show the state that protecting wilderness not only makes ecological sense, but economic sense as well.
They really inspired in me a sense of wilderness, with a soul older than millions and millions of years.
But despite high hopes, the LHC revealed a barren subatomic wilderness populated only by a lonely Higgs boson.
While we're only beginning to explore the vast wilderness inside our guts, we already have a glimpse of how crucial our microbiomes are for digestive health.
So just a quick show of hands here: how many of you think you would be able to survive in this lush wilderness for a few days?
Two million years ago humans evolved in Africa and then slowly but surely spread out across the entire planet by reaching into the wilderness that was beyond their horizons.
So to deal with this, the park service has been planting rust-resistant white bark pine seedlings in the park, even in areas that they are otherwise managing as wilderness.
So for now, it's still this little sort of secret wilderness in the heart of Philadelphia, and if you know where the hole is in the chain-link fence, you can scramble up to the top and you can find this completely wild meadow just floating above the city of Philadelphia.
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