I am aware that every picture I am taking may end up as a record of what once was. I want people to see what I see, to feel the loss I feel and be scared to look at a future without wildlife. The sense of urgency to get it down before it is gone is always with me.

Many people are motivated by love and want to hold on to what they care about and know how rich their lives are due to wild and domestic animals. They don't want to look into the abyss and say they did nothing to stop the extinction of our natural world.

How do we create empathy for our wildlife as they lose their habitat? Their grief and loss must be overwhelming as is shown by the increasing endangered list. We grow up with instinctive feelings of love and compassion towards our animals, how and why do we lose that? Where does the perception that we are separate from nature come from and how and why is it perpetuated? We must ask who does that serve and how do we stop it before we lose everything.