Great. Here during the current mass extinction event, the first of its kind to be caused by the activity of a single species (that would be human beings), a global conservation study released at this week's UN Biodiversity Summit in Japan says that one-fifth of all animal and plant species on the are now endangered. Awesome animals, like the Siberian tiger, the largest of all the big cats; and the fossa, the top of Madagascar's food chain, a creature so interesting, that zoologists don't even know what family it belongs to (is it a type of cat, a mongoose, what?); and the sad and adorable and [...]

"The world needs TV shows that DEVELOP solutions to the problems that humans are causing, not stupify the people into destroying the world. Not encouraging them to breed more environmentally harmful humans. Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels."

You probably recognize that from "My Demands," the manifesto of James J. Lee, who took three people hostage at Discovery headquarters in Washington D.C. on Wednesday before being shot and killed by a police sniper. [...]