When I was president of AZA, the administration before me, primarily through the work of Ed Moraaco and Dennis Merrit had come up with the idea of having species survival plans to have zoos work together and pool their resources to save individual species. And that had already been set in motion. And during my term of office, we managed to bring that to fruition and started the species survival plans, which I think were very good start at the time for getting some of these programs formalized. Some of them have been successful, some of them have not. Most of the ones that have not been successful have been due to personnel that were put in the various positions of authority who maybe became too much personally involved in the management of the thing instead of looking at the overall what’s good for the species. And so we’ve in the beginning, they, I think were very good. Some of them were working now, some of ’em not. And I know that AZA has backed away from some of the programs.
