Why I Care About the New Wild
M. Sanjayan is a conservation biologist and an executive vice president of Conservation International.
The new wild is the realization that we humans are part of nature and that saving nature is really about saving ourselves. Nature isn’t something out there, far away. It’s living, breathing. It’s part of us.
I love nature. I live in Montana; I grew up in Africa. Wild places are almost places of worship for me. But love alone isn’t enough to save them. And in some cases, as we show in the program, when nature is taken off track, the consequences for human life are epic. I don’t think people quite get that. If we did, we wouldn’t make the decisions we do.
In this show we discover stories where there is a way out. We show you, front