The minority of folks are ever going to be lucky enough to do what we have and go out and see elephants in the wild. They’re going to, they’re gonna learn firsthand about elephants by seeing them face to face. And, and I think we, we have a responsibility to make that connection and use that connection so that people can learn about those animals in nature. And, and I think the, it it, to me, it’s money well spent spending it on zoos in addition to spending money in the wild. Because I think the thing that, the thing that has the impact at the end of the day is having people support animals in nature because it, it really is the friction between human land use, human human populations and, and human changes, anthropogenic changes in the environment that really threaten most animals in nature. And so the only way to change that is to change, is to impact public opinion, whether it’s, whether it’s inspiring somebody to donate to different causes or inspiring people to, to lobby for or against a particular issue to support animal welfare in the wild. And I think that’s, i I I think it’s our job to make the money that we spend on the gorilla habitat or the elephant habitat or the zebra habitat, pay dividends for those animals in the wild because of our ability to reach literally millions of people and have them affect them in a way that gives them a concern about nature, such that they’ll donate or act or vote in a way that supports those populations.
