I think the issue is that the list is very short or certainly a lot shorter than it should be. I remember, you know, we, if we were, if we were into an argument with a an anti zoo person, there would, it was the classic, and this would be in the, in the seventies and eighties, and you’d roll off, you know, Arabian orx, European bison, schulsky horses, maybe golden lion tamarinds. And there’s, those would be the classic examples of, you know, here’s where zoos have made a, a very significant contribution and the species have been reintroduced. Or in the case of golden lion Tamarinds, the ca captive population has augmented a shrinking wild population. I think there needs to be more reintroduction. I know that Howlet Zoo or the Aspen Oil Foundation in the UK was criticized initially for sending gorillas back to Central Africa. And I, and I’ll be honest, I was one of those critics, I have very much changed my mind and they are now held up as an example of, of a good protocol for reintroducing gorillas or great apes back into the wild. I think we need to do more experimental reintroduction.
