When you talk about that, you’re trying to reach people, but also you’re trying to reach decision makers, which many times equals the political process. So to bring it back a bit at your zoo or the zoos that you ran as general director, what’s the most efficient way to deal with these elected officials and municipal bureaucrats in order to develop and manage the zoo today. Getting the attention of office holders, bureaucrats, of people who wish to be elected to office, various kinds is an extraordinarily difficult problem as we demonstrate with every election for every office. Involvement, understanding, education, are all tools, but unfortunately their success is unpredictable. And the reason it’s unpredictable is that the people that we are trying to influence are highly variable. They’re quite diverse, and a tool that works with one group of people may not work with another. Wherever we can get people specifically involved with a wildlife problem, in my experience, we have a chance of getting them to broaden their view and apply it more generally and perhaps very importantly, if they are government officials.
