Key Quotes

"Nature and Youth's position represents a departure form those elements within the environmental movement that give total protection higher priority than sustainable use. Our aim is life in harmony with Nature, not the protection of the symbolic value of species that are not threatened with extinction... the whaling issue is also a diversion as regards the really critical environmental issues. (Heidi Sørensen, leader of Nature and Youth, "The Environmental Movement and Minke Whaling, 11 Essays on Whales and Man, High North Alliance, 1994)

"We are trying to bring our members along on utilization, but our development people, the fund-raisers, are very nervous because there is no question that a great majority of our members are animal lovers and have difficulty in making the evolution to a more sophisticated understanding of conservation. (Russel Train, chairman of the World Wildlife Fund -USA. "At the hand of man", Raymond Bonner, 1992)