I went over to Africa with only my board president and my major fundraiser knowing, the first time to look to see about the possibility. I came back and met with him privately and said we can do this, but we need to be willing to commit a million dollars just on the elephants, the logistics of getting them here, and the conservation support and everything. And that’s as far as I went. And we went to the board the next day or two because they knew, I was able to tell ’em, we’re either gonna have elephants here or be a zoo without elephants. And there were no elephants available in the United States. This was a opportunity that wasn’t gonna come around again most likely. They sat there and didn’t flinch. They knew there was gonna be the issues of the animal rights, I told ’em all this.
