I think a lot of this would come through the education programs, seeing the children in particular, as they first become aware of the importance of wildlife conservation or of even things like recycling, saving our water resources, basic things like this, making the public aware and usually you have to start with the young ones and then hopefully they’ll get their parents involved or if you wait long enough, they’ll be grown up enough to the point where they’ll be the ones voting and doing the donating and things like this. As far as specific animal events that have occurred, I’ve always been particularly pleased with the birth of some of our endangered species and how the numbers can be rising instead of falling. I think the Kemps Redley program that our zoo has worked with in particular has actually made a difference in the conservation community and in the wellbeing of the oceans. This was only possible by our Kemps Ridley people getting the shrimping industry involved, and the shrimping industry had been given a bad wrap through the years as being the ones they were visible, they were killing sea turtles by catching them in their trawling nets and drowning them. And yes, this happened and it still happens to a lesser degree.
