A new pipeline is being constructed to reroute oil flow around the exterior of a national wildlife preserve.

So they started fleeing from the east to the west.

It has also chimpanzees.

Congo has five of the world's richest sites of protected area, and the Okapi Faunal Reserve is one of them.

It's become this intense industrialized zone.

But we do have quite a lot at risk down there, as we all know, the 33 wildlife refuges, so much wildlife and fish and diversity.

larger biomass inside the reserves.

For Wild Animal Defensive Arts,

Now you've probably heard about the Porcupine caribou herd in the context of its breeding ground in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

And the training center there was built around the scientific Congolese staff and some American scientists also.

This experience and this training

Human population. And so if you're looking for growth industries to get into, that's not a good one protecting natural creatures.

And so what we did was, actually, we made moratoriums on the east and west coasts on drilling.

It was in a grizzly bear preserve, although no one told me that before we went.

This is in the Bahamas Nassau grouper.

And so we have this penguin project.

This is one of the things they ought to be thinking more about.

A very important environmental lesson could be learned from this.

So they hosted and funded this meeting.

And this was somebody who had incredible potential to spread aspects of our message, whether it be with regards to wildlife conservation or health prevention.

Nature reserve

The IAPF is a direct action, law enforcement organization.

I devoted half of it to rebuild the herbarium, because we didn't have good infrastructure to start plants.

Instead of shooting poachers dead

lead me to get a wonderful job with the Wildlife Conservation Society, which works to save wildlife and wild places all over the world.

And the Okapi Faunal Reserve is there, so there was a road from Goma, somewhere here, and coming like this.

I did another story on marine debris.

It's where I really getting passion with what I'm doing right up to now I'm standing in front of you doing botany and wildlife conservation.

So the fishermen are catching more.

One very clear way is the marine protected areas, especially no take reserves that we set aside to allow for the recovery for marine life.

So it could have a negative impact on the whole population.

For example in the health sector.

And this one interests me.

It would only cost 16 billion to set up 20 percent of the ocean as marine protected areas that actually give new living choices to the fishermen as well.

The organization plays a principal role in wildlife conservation.

We have this principal that we don't touch that produces returns, social, economic and ecological.

Protected areas provide hope that the creatures of Ed Wilson's dream of an encyclopedia of life, or the census of marine life, will live not just as a list, a photograph, or a paragraph.

The number of species increases 21 percent so if you have 1,000 species you would expect 200 more in a marine reserve.

They were trusted by the local communities

we're savages.

So it's a whole discipline in plant protection aimed at the reduction of chemicals.

A fox is a wild animal.

Foxes are wild animals.

It's fine.

(Laughter)