I believe that zoo as a group should be involved in the elephant battle, the tiger battle, many of them are. AZA institution alone had over 3000 conservation projects underway last year, but the amount of money involved is small potatoes, it’s gotta be more. There’s a zoo in Boise that zoo has stated that the purpose of the zoo is to raise money for the protection of animals in nature. That’s the right purpose. When I did the great Congo Gorilla Forest exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in 1999, I arranged for there to be a charge for each person, three bucks. They would go through this magnificent exhibit, which alone is considerably bigger than the Central Park Zoo, and as they left, they would go through a voting room. And a whole series of conservation projects were set forth on touch screens in the room. 12 touch screens.
