Scott Loarie

They're literally saving these newts and frogs one bucket at a time.

And then they use these data to design and build underpasses to help amphibians cross safely.

I mean, Sally didn't wait for someone else to fix this.

These kinds of solutions, they don't have to wait for our governments to wake up.

Anybody can start these things, kick these off.

I call this actionable hope.

We live in this age of just overwhelming environmental crisis, and it's so easy to just throw up your hands and say, there's nothing we can do about this.

But this is a path forward, not through passive despair, but through active participation.

Our goal by 2030 is to try to get 100 million people connected to nature.

to census most of the world's species and to inspire and network a million grassroots projects like these to restore habitats for tens of thousands of species.

The extinction crisis is too big for any one of us to solve alone, but if we all do our small part, we can solve this.

So this is what I want you to do.

The next time you're outside, just take a minute to realize that you're part of an ecosystem that we still know so little about and that needs your help.

And then just notice something, like maybe it's a moth on your balcony.

Maybe it's like a fern growing through a crack in the sidewalk.

And then take a photograph of it and share it.

Share it with science.

I mean, be a part of this responsibility we have to understand and protect the natural world.

Because solving the extinction crisis, it isn't just for scientists, it's the shared human project.

It's one you absolutely can contribute to.