Yeah, so you gotta give the new kids a chance and maybe there’s some really good ones out there. I think there’s maybe a tendency to think that curating a collection is somehow harder now than it was before and it might be because you’re expected to know more about… Read More
What direction should the zoo education be going for, conservation education, research?… Read More
Zoo education. Read More
I’m trying to get CNN to focus on that. That would help us all zoos and dog and cat owners, because I think it we’ve never been successful in confronting it. I think we all take it serious, but then we get on with our lives and go, “Well, maybe… Read More
Do you think there is a problem and how do you feel curator should be trained today or what do you feel is expected of that part of the profession?… Read More
Well, I’m probably not good enough to judge that because I’ve been out of the business for a few years, but even in the last years that I was running Living Desert, we had the curatorial staff we wanted pretty much in place. And so, I wasn’t out searching for… Read More
We had to deal with them a little bit. Not as much as, because we’re so much more low profile. We weren’t a big target and we didn’t have the big charismatic, mega vertebrates that the animal rights groups tend to focus on. we didn’t have elephants and we didn’t… Read More
And of course, we didn’t call ourselves a zoo. And I guess in some respects, that was actually helpful because we weren’t a zoo in some people’s minds. Okay. All of that said, I think not only for the world of zoos, but because I’m also in the world, I… Read More
How we’d ever do that, I don’t know. I think about it a lot. I watch CNN where lately in the last year or two, they’ve been doing expose’s on charities that aren’t charities, that don’t do what they say they’re gonna do. And I have actually written two letters,… Read More
More typical collections have a little of both from around the world. (sighs) Again, I think it’s really what makes sense for your resources and in the community you’re in. If you’re far away from any quote, “Major zoo,” and you have a local public that would have to drive… Read More
We have people in top positions in their field seem to be in line with those non biologists, what they have to say. Read More
Can you give us your thoughts on how best to deal with these groups and did you have to deal with these groups and what was your approach?… Read More
Should it be a regional North American collection?… Read More
Should it be endangered species only?… Read More
(Karen sighs) That’s hard to answer because like most of us in conservation, I think many days we feel like we’re losing just looking around and seeing the global warming and seeing populations and you just wonder is this just, some days I say to myself, it’s really great that… Read More
Did I really feel like in the great end of things that I helped save the universe?… Read More
I don’t think that’s been accomplished, but on the other hand I wouldn’t want to have gone through life saying to myself, “Nothing I can do is going to stop this, so I’m not gonna do anything.” So, all I can say to anybody in the conservation field, whether it’s… Read More
Considering the financial resources available to many small and medium sizes, what should be the focus of the collection?… Read More
How much space does that take?… Read More
I mean, so there’s no excuse. I used to give a lot of papers to small zoos about that when I was, there’s just no excuse not to get involved. None. Read More