Kiara Rodriguez tells facilitator Amber Noble about the importance of keeping animals in their natural habitats.
KR: I like how most animals, you don’t want to take them away from their habitat no matter how much they look pretty. It’s like flowers: if you pick ’em, they’re going to die. It’s just a matter of time ’til they die. And I kind of think of that with animals because they’re a living thing and if you, let’s say—let’s see, what’s an animal I can use? Oh, I got an idea. Let’s say a zebra, and let’s say you took him but you didn’t put him in a zoo. You took him to Asia and, no you took him to Brazil. There we go. And it’s in the rainforest, and it didn’t have anything that he’d like to eat or different predators, and he wouldn’t know how to live there. And then he’d eventually die. But if you put him back in the African Savannah, there’s lots of food for it, it’s got shelter, and it knows how to live.
