My focus personally has been to be a conservationist, which is to save species, protect wild lands, sometimes bring animals into assurance colonies in the wild – like California Condors for example – and put them back in the wild. It’s very different from animal rights. Eric Goode Read Quote
Then I began filming a world that I knew quite a bit about. I was peripherally involved in that world much of my life – the exotic reptile world, the collectors, the dealers, the smugglers. Eric Goode Read Quote
But I was just really blown away that you could just buy a snow leopard. For me, it was like buying a panda bear or a Komodo dragon. Eric Goode Read Quote
So I’d say that the Doc Antles, the Jeff Lowes, these people were very guarded. Carole Baskin wasn’t and Joe Exotic, wasn’t, obviously, because he’s such a narcissist and an egomaniac that he did so many things against his better judgment. Eric Goode Read Quote
If you keep more 230 tigers, it’s like having 230 children, you don’t really love them, you’re just collecting them. Eric Goode Read Quote
I was a kid that loved reptiles and eventually started an organization dedicated to saving turtles and tortoises, called the Turtle Conservancy, where we protect land and basically do species conservation around the world. Eric Goode Read Quote
Animal rights can be as extreme as not riding a horse, or not wearing leather, not having a pet at all. Animal welfare advocates are preventing the suffering of animals. And then there’s conservation and species conservation and what conservation biologists do. Eric Goode Read Quote
