Interview 34015 – Caption Index: 375
What were the obstacles you faced?… Read More
What were the obstacles you faced?… Read More
Well, they should develop what we have started all this policy on conservation, education, research, et cetera. Well, in Europe you personally got zoos to cooperate in animal breeding programs. Read More
Well, but what advice would you give them?… Read More
And if you could give advice, what issues would you like to see the international zoo community addressing now?… Read More
What they should have learned that the zoo is a good place for animals and the zoo is a place which does help conservation of nature in the world. Read More
Hmm. Well I really don’t know to what to say. I have many years not attended a Vassar conference. This is an international association of those and I don’t really know what they discussed there and what are their problems. Read More
Has it been successful? Yes. Yes. Read More
When families come with their children, what do you want them to feel about the zoo when they leave?… Read More
That group of not children but not adults somewhere they Were Teenagers. I mean this zoo was the first one to have a zoo school at the zoo Education department. And of course also classes in this size. I mean age si come to the zoo so that you can… Read More
Has that been successful? Hmm?… Read More
I think so because the variety of offers for entertainment in this city has grown very much. And so we have to compete with all of them. But our special attraction are the enemies. Read More
What I said before You talked about zoo visitors, how do you think a zoo can improve the connection with kids and teenagers to heighten their awareness about the natural world?… Read More
Would you say that marketing today is more important than when you started?… Read More
I can say that my successor understood what I try to do and I think they have improved very much. There’s a lot of advertisement outside in the city and around the city to attract people into the zoo. So he does a very good job on that. So I,… Read More
Is there any advice that you as an experienced zoo director would give to a new zoo director about the importance of marketing your zoo?… Read More
So in many ways your background in teaching was very invaluable to you as a zoo director?… Read More
Yes. – That many other zoo directors did not have?… Read More
No, no, no. Usually zoo directors, he comes to the zoo, his curator, and after some time he takes the chance to compete for the directorship. So they are just always worked at the zoo and didn’t care for anything else Now. So I was coming from outside and regarded… Read More
And did you invite universities?… Read More
Yes, I was a professor and I taught at the universities at the first at bond and then on in at Cologne. And this was a chance to recruit young people in seminars, in guided tours, in lectures, and at least to con convince the academic world or at least… Read More