On this episode of the Playbook, I have Damien Mander, founder and CEO of the International

Anti-Poaching Foundation.

And we're going to talk about how exponential growth, compound interest and acceleration

work in negative behaviors, favor. Join me for all this and more on the Playbook.

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook. For each week, I bring you some of the greatest athletes,

celebrities and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success

and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom. I'm your host, David Meltzer.

I have a friend from Down Under, Damien Mander. Welcome. He is the CEO and founder of the International

Anti-Poaching Foundation. And I want to start off real quick, Damien, because I, you know,

travel internationally, understand all the critical business issues that surround some

international issues that most Americans may or may not even be aware of, let alone the impact

that it has here in the United States. Poaching, being one of them, I do so much in Africa, North

Africa, and understanding all of the critical business issues. What are some of the issues you

think here, you know, being here, understanding that Americans in particular should know, let alone

everyone around the world, about what impact poaching is having on the world.

Well, we're in the middle of the greatest example in history. Civilisation has been brought to

its knees, by the way, we treat nature and that's COVID. We're looking at millions of people dying,

billions of people in lockdown, and we're going to be in trillions of dollars of deficit.

And that's because we're trying to fix things after the fact. If we invest some of that money into

looking after nature in the first place, us as a global community, not just America, not just

Africa or Australia, but us as a global community are going to be able to get in front of these things

in the future. And that's, I think that's really the key message we've got to take away from COVID.

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