So what you do, you have to go through and be educated in that sense to learn the details, so you know how to put the big picture together. So then you can be a spokesperson. I wanted to kind of get back to one of the things we had… Read More
And I’ll tell you why this is important?… Read More
We now are having our national parks so crowded with motor homes and everything else. They’re limiting access to national parks. Well, in the community if you have a ecological park there as part of the community, that should play as an important role as a baseball game or a… Read More
Are there any suggestions for those aspiring that you would give them to make a difference in the natural world or the world of zoos that is trying to help the natural world?… Read More
How many spokespeople are there out there now?… Read More
You don’t know who the spokesperson is for World Wildlife Fund. And very few zoos have spokespeople, but you need to have people that are trained in learning how to speak. I’m just getting started, because I feel like… I am beginning to feel I have something to say. I’m… Read More
Why should we save elephants?… Read More
That’s a good point. To what extent do you continue to be active in the zoo field or the, I will say conservation field with the sustainable… Right. Consumption. Well, I’m getting a little long in the tooth. I’ve been around a while, but I’m just getting started. And one… Read More
Not talking about myself anymore, but every zoological institution should have a spokesperson that is known by the public. Read More
The pressure from human occupation is gonna be so strong that it always wins out. I know around Kilimanjaro, the Africans are now beginning to develop their farms, et cetera, ’cause the needs of farms for Africans is the highest political priority. It’s not the elephants is not the animals. Read More
But we probably are gonna have to get exclusive areas where we can raise elephants or else the gene pools are also gonna start disappearing. I don’t know about that problem. I mean, it maybe easier to save some of the ocean species, you know, like whales, because the ocean… Read More
They wouldn’t be in Africa right now, if it weren’t the fact that they’re bringing in, a lot of money. So we really have to face that. Read More
Otherwise, by the way, if we don’t rotate, we’re gonna terminate biological evolution. Right now, animals can’t move from one section to the other, like they used to in Africa, they’re restricted into. A lot of them are fenced in reserves. Speaking of longevity. Yeah. Read More
Do you have any opinion on the maintaining of elephants in captivity?… Read More
Absolutely. I’d like to hear that. Well, first of all, let’s talk about the maintaining of elephants in the wild. There’s some real problems there, because many of the roads in Africa are old elephant trails. They used to migrate long distances depending on the access to water. Well, if… Read More
All right?… Read More
The next thing we have to do is start rotating our sections of wild lands over a four or 500 year period. Right now they’re planning on going in, and cutting some of the only really pure undisturbed rainforest in Guyana in the Amazon. And we’re doing more and more. Read More
And I’ll tell you why?… Read More
When we lose the fertility of the soils, we as a species on this planet are done for. So we gotta let the forest, the only thing that can heal that is that the forest will grow, then we can go over there like a farmer knows so well and… Read More
It was called the Paseo de Pantera. I don’t know if you knew it, but jaguars are found all the way up into Southern Texas. But this is a Paseo de Pantera where a mountain lion or a panther could move all the way up to Alaska from South America. Read More