I don’t think any collection, no matter how big, medium or small it may be, I don’t think they really can afford not to have a collection whose major emphasis is on highly threatened species. Be they as part of insurance populations, be it as part breeding for reintroduction or basically as say in the case with tigers in this day and age, we’re not really looking at reintroduction at the moment. They are there as flagship animals for their, for their wild counterparts.
