People who work in the field of conservation, or ecology adopt a consciousness that goes all over the world, and not, gee I'm worried about the bald eagle, but screw the tigers. I also found that kind of global perspective in an uncle who was in the merchant marines who was all over the world many times, and when I was a kid I picked it up and thought it was great. However grow up in most countries and you're not encouraged to have that kind of perspective, since it is a perspective that doesn't serve your country's best interests, unfortunately. You know like, my country right or wrong.