Michael Franti Save the Buffalo

Michael Franti talks about the importance of protecting the buffalo. Interview by Mike Mease of Buffalo Field Campaign, January 2012.
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• activism
• wildlife
• national parks
• Yellowstone
• Yellowstone National Park
• direct action

[flidhais65]

Each creature is an absolute miracle. Also plants and anything alive. Humans like to think of themselves as geniuses, but not one has ever created even a blade of grass by themselves. Humans have no right to destroy life in any form regardless of how small it may be. We haven't even begun to learn all there is to learn about creating "life."

[BoxerBlessings1]

YES to your message.

I'd take it another step: each individual animal -- not just each species -- matters.

Each other-than-human creature, just like each human, has a sacred life that he/she wants and deserves to live to the full -- with family, friends, nourishment, shelter, space to roam, and time to learn and enjoy.

When we care about each individual being, we're expanding LOVE, and thus causing indifference, arrogance, fear, greed, hatred to fade into oblivion, where they belong.

[normalguyable]

we love you buffalo, screw america this country is a hell hole.

[iamearthbornami]

thank you for your loving kindness towards the buffalo- love and respect - ami

[EcoJiveTV]

Michael Franti rocks!

[xxcrossed]

so true ! you rock !

[scrubjay93]

Even if the loss of a brown minnow or beetle species might not have any ecological consequences whatsoever, it is a permanent loss of beauty and a unique and wondrous product of millions of years of evolution on Earth. A person who must be convinced that the protection of a species might benefit his or herself (through protection of the overall ecological system that allows them to survive in the first place), otherwise it isn't worth their saving, is simply an uncultured neanderthal ash hole.