When we hosted the conference, the 1999 conference for the preservation of endangered species or the captive breeding of dangerous species, it was extremely important for our zoo because we were doing great things, but it wasn’t known out there. It really hadn’t percolated to the zoo community things that were happening in Cincinnati. And we thought that by hosting this, and this is when we just opened our new research center. We had a lot to work in that area, and by bringing in scientists and researchers from around the world, it would have greatly to the knowledge of breeding rare species and how these various countries are cooperating, even some of the things that of- The husbandry that has been developed in the zoo industry now is being used by wildlife communities all over the world. That’s a strong benefit. I was in Tasmania and they’re breeding certain species of parrots for reintroduction that are endangered and captive breeding going on here and there, and those are all husbandry developments, I mean all husbandry techniques that were developed in our field. So that’s a again a plus, but it was nice in my mind to get all these groups together, to share that knowledge, and it worked out very well. It was beyond my fondest expectations and we published the proceedings from that.
