Generally speaking the director in the kind of institution that the New York Zoological Society, Wildlife Conservation Society is, you wish to protect your board from politics. You don’t want to put your trustees in the position of being solicited by politicians seeking election. So generally speaking, when it comes to getting the money from government agencies, whether they be city, state, government, or international, the trustees are not involved. There’s some instances where they are, perhaps holding a party or something where a lot of people can get together and talk, but generally speaking, they’re not front and foreground with government agencies, like our big project in Patagonia which is GEF program, none of the trustees were involved at all, all of that was done by myself.
