If you’re not helping animals in the wild and you’re just having a, you know, what we call a living museum, I guess, you know, to me maybe that’s just me and a few people, but there’s no future in zoos if we don’t connect it better to saving habitats animals and working with people in those communities. I mean, we’re, we’re much, it’s almost, it’s, it is almost like missionary work in a way. You know, we, we, we go, we have to go out, we help. If we help the people, they’ll help the animals. We can’t just go directly from helping the animals without and ignoring the community. So conservation to me is the foundation, is gonna be the foundation of, of, if we don’t have foundation, I don’t, I just don’t see how you justify having, having animals in, in, in artificial habitats in this country, no matter how good they are. If they, if if they’re going extinct in the wild and you’re singing their praises at your zoo, you gotta prove that you’re, that, that, that, that you’re doing, that you’re part of that story. You’re not just writing a check.
