Well it, it was always interesting, you know, being at London Zoo because there were strong con had been for years strong connections with the royal family. Many of them have a very genuine interest in, in wild thing wildlife. And in the countryside especially, you can imagine with the… Read More
And so we started what we call the e-learning program. And it has six parts to it. It’s a pretty comprehensive coverage in relatively simple language because we are dealing mostly this is the difference between what we are doing and the more sophisticated up to date science side of,… Read More
But what it is, I think two and a, over two and a half thousand people have actually now gone through the, ’cause we, we ask them if they do take the course that they let us know and it’s, it’s, it’s well over 2000 people have done it all… Read More
That’s the sort of work that Brooke’s doing in, you know, almost all in these communities where people are lucky to earn a dollar a day if that While welfare is, is is kind of unique, but does it have any aspects of classes or things that people can look… Read More
Absolutely, yes. I mean, what what we’ve found in the, in the p of actually getting into the field and working, you know, face to face with a lot of the folks that we’ve been training in mostly Southeast Asia and Brazil, Japan, one or two, one or two other,… Read More
But, so I haven’t had actually a lot to do, you know, other than, other than being part of the Brook operation and helping to found, I actually was chairman when we founded Brooke Pakistan, Brooke India and Brooke Jordan and Pakistan, India and Egypt and Ethiopia and now the… Read More
But the Brook, as I said, the Brook, the Brook was extremely valuable in getting into the welfare network. But what happened then was that I was asked after cutting the giraffes, toenails and a few other things, story in its own right. I was asked to join the then… Read More
And she bought the whole lot in the end over three year period. And then with money left over, founded this clinic, the Brook Hospital for Animals. And that, at the time that I was involved with them, was still, you know, it was quite a, quite a, a major… Read More
Is the brook involved with equine welfare within the zoo world?… Read More
There’s no, no, there’s no direct connection with the zoo world at all. I mean, it, it, it was just that, what happened then was that the, the brook in running a clinic in, let me go, go back a step. The founder, the founder of the Brook, Dorothy Brook,… Read More
So a lot of it now involves training. A lot of it, when the Brazilian zoo, the Brazilian Zoo Association asks us to go in, they have 70 odd members. I think there’s about 150 zoos in Brazil, but half of them are part of the Brazilian Zoo Association. They… Read More
And then in, in negotiation, in discussion, have sort of tweaked those standards. So they now have their own set of standards, which are not very different to, you know, other associations. So we’re getting to the, and there is an exit strategy with Brazil that in another two years… Read More
Because it can be a daunting task to correct and move forward exhibitry in a smaller, we’ll say third World Zoo. Well, there, there is, that is a role in some instances where we’ve gone in and given them sort of broad, it’s, it, it’s, it’s always been welfare based,… Read More
So does wild welfare then one aspect go into a zoo that needs help and rehabilitate exhibits, give them a collection plan, do they do that kind of thing?… Read More
But the, the staff of both work together on, on a more or less a single program of, of activity. And what’s happening is that particularly the US one is supported by a number of US zoos. WW always has had good support from about 10 or a dozen of… Read More
But certainly wanting to work with ’em on particular projects. And the other one is the whole question that we’re, you know, we’ve been talking about, which is one zoo giving help as a zoo to another zoo or to a zoo association. So those are the ways in which… Read More
I I’ve never heard of. But what we’re finding is that those sort of association or those, whether individual zoos or associations are, are want, want more help with improving their welfare. And, and while welfare obviously is a very good way to, to channel that, So is wild welfare,… Read More
You know, I’m talking about mostly developing country zoos. The answer is yes, but very often the same issues that we talked about in, in other partnerships is not really understanding what that, what that involves. But what we are seeing in, while welfare is growing interest in individuals within… Read More
I mean, there were, you know, if they tried to go in and sort out problems with as they saw problems zoo, they simply didn’t have the expertise and certainly not the expertise to go beyond the immediate emergency needs. And so what, while welfare is doing is taking a… Read More
And the other, and the other part of the question, which is, should, should zoos be doing more in terms of improving the welfare in other zoo?… Read More