Michael Squires

In the book, “Last Chance to See”, Douglas Adams talks a lot about obsessive conservationists. I think they are so obsessive because they love what they do and no matter what happens their going to keep doing what they love to do. In the first chapter, Here Be Chickens, Adams describes Melbourne who knows anything and everything about poisonous snakes than anyone. Melbourne doesn’t like his job but he does it anyways because someone has to watch out for the researchers who get bit by them. He also has an obsession about hydroponics which he would rather talk about than snakes. These so called “obsessive” people are out trying to save the endangered species of animals so they will be living and will hopefully one day come off the endangered lists. If these people weren’t out there then some of the most extraordinary animals we have on earth won’t be living anymore. If we didn’t have obsessive people in the world then everything would be ruined, imagine if we did stop being so obsessive then we would have trash all over our streets or no animals for us to research. We can all to this in some way if you really think about it. We all have that one thing we admire, for me its baseball. I have to be obsessive about baseball if I want to be successful at it. Just like these guys have to be obsessive for the animals they are trying to save. They go out in the worst condition, for long periods of time, and for nothing at all, just the love of what their doing.