Interview 3934 – Caption Index: 494
Some of the most important aspects of marketing would you like to impart to me?… Read More
Some of the most important aspects of marketing would you like to impart to me?… Read More
Zoo education for the zoo professionals or for public?… Read More
Public. Okay. I guess all of the above. And I think there’s ways to do that in a variety of offerings so that because any one thing isn’t going to accomplish all those things and isn’t gonna interest one individual. I think you have to connect to people wherever their… Read More
So, you connect, as broad as you can develop programming for, you should probably develop it because that just gives you more ways to connect to individuals ’cause each individual that comes into the park or you’re trying to get into the park, might come in for a slightly, obviously… Read More
And so, I think it behooves us to look at our visitor as not just a visitor but they’re just as diverse as all of us and how many ways can we reach ’em?… Read More
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