Glenn Close’s Wants You to Care For Animals & The Planet
Beloved actress and star of Sunset Boulevard, Glenn Close, was recently named co-chair of Panthera’s Conservation Council, reports Page Six, which vows to save animals and preset the environment — especially big cats.
“The biggest threat to big cats is the human population,” she said to Page Six. “What naturalists and conservationists have to figure out is given that the human population is growing, and will continue to grow, how do these two populations exist together? Because obviously the panthera population, they’re the vulnerable ones.”
She continued: “Big cats interest me in that they’re the top of the heap where ever they are and for them to survive means that everything below them can survive. Somehow, you know, humans think that we can do it alone, that we’re smart enough to create some kind of world that doesn’t need the profound connection that has lead us to be where we are today. As far as I’m concerned, we’re fleas on the planet.”
She added, “Just recently Mother Nature says, ‘You know what? Poof.’ So we’re connected that in if we don’t attend to these areas of biodiversity that these big cats are making possible … then we won’t have a hope in hell of surviving. It’s as simple as that.”
Read more at Page Six.