Interview 34015 – Caption Index: 286
What do you mean?… Read More
What do you mean?… Read More
This planet will move on if there are no elephants who, who needs elephants really?… Read More
Who needs gorillas?… Read More
That is a very difficult question. Read More
What do you say when people ask you to justify nature conservation, what do you tell them when they say, why do you use disease nature conservation?… Read More
Yeah, And why I was at, even at my time, I was one of the few zoo directors who insisted in a morning round through the zoo, this was for me the only possibility to, to be in touch with animal keepers to speak every morning about problems of the… Read More
To make rounds?… Read More
Yes. Of the collection?… Read More
When you were zoo director, was it important or how important do you think it is for the zoo director?… Read More
Do other countries, do you have, I Mean each zoo has many relations to other zoos in Europe, mostly in Germany and other countries. But sister zoos in the sense of definition, I don’t know. Read More
Do zoos have sister zoo relationships?… Read More
But what gives you hope?… Read More
Hmm. Well everything can be improved of course, and we can strengthen our efforts, but I’m quite sure that this development will go on and that more and more projects all over the world will be done. For instance, when I left the zoo 20 years ago, I, we had… Read More
Well, I think the most important part are the educational, what do we call it?… Read More
The labels where you explain, I mean the biology of the animal, but also the status in nature. And if there are breeding programs, release programs, so they take this up. The problem is if you walk through a zoo and want to read all these labels, it is a… Read More
So when you talk about conservation, what worries you?… Read More
What do you think has been the greatest, when we talk about visitors, the greatest areas of development in the way a zoo has interpreted their collection to the visitors?… Read More
What’s been the greatest area of developing that interpretation for the visitors coming to the zoo?… Read More
I don’t see any major difference. I’ve traveled much in the US and have seen many zoos and they do, they follow the same policy as in Europe and sometimes they were much ahead to the Europeans. We had to speed up to build up SSPs and EEPs, et cetera. Read More
Do you think you can talk about what you believe are the major differences between zoos in North America and those in Europe?… Read More