David Jeremiah Barron Quotes

United States, Judge
July 7, 1967

David Jeremiah Barron is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and former S. William Green Professor of Public Law at Harvard Law School. He previously served as the Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel at the United States Department of Justice.

For conservation to succeed, we must embrace conservation models where people use their natural resources to create jobs, to grow economies, and to feed their people while protecting wildlife and Africa's iconic species.

David Jeremiah Barron
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In addition to tourism, it is essential to employ other ways to benefit more from the use of natural resources than from their destruction - from wildlife breeding operations to - yes - hunting of abundant species where viable.

David Jeremiah Barron

We are facing an enormous crisis in Africa right now in terms of illegal wildlife trafficking, which is decimating animal populations, destroying local economies, and funding armed insurgencies and terrorist syndicates. If we do not find solutions to this crisis now, there will be little habitat left beyond sparse areas of national parks that will serve as glorified zoos to small pockets of remaining animals.

David Jeremiah Barron