Actually, they started camel rides just as I was leaving. I didn’t disagree with the concept, frankly, because I think I am of the old school. I have no problem naming an animal because you have to connect people and they don’t connect with animal 2276. They connect with Reno,… Read More
How supportive were zoos and aquariums with this initiative and what’d you learn from this experience?… Read More
Well, I was part of the start of that. I mean, by 2008, I had finished my role in WAZA, but I think a lot of the zoos stepped up. As we talked about it, all of us, of all the life forms, I mean, they’re both hard and easy. Read More
I just happened to be in WAZA at that moment in time when that hit, and glad to be part of the start of it, but can’t take any kinda credit for it. They say that zoos have to keep growing and changing and attracting people for some, to bring… Read More
To this day, they’re still doing that. So, for me to have focused specifically on, somebody leaves that they really care about Arabian Oryx, I just, I want the broader concept that they at least would understand that in the world’s deserts there is life and it’s interesting, fascinating, and… Read More
This stuff is all on a desert?… Read More
Oh my goodness, so much.” And that was the bottom line for us and that we can say we accomplish. In 2008 as president of WAZA, the World Zoo Association, you called on the public to assist in helping save the world’s amphibians. Read More
Why?… Read More
I just listened two weeks ago to a CNN program called Anthony Bourdain’s and he was in Vegas. And he does these rather thoughtful programs on parts of the world generally centered around the food, but and which in this program, they’re talking about the fact that they’re doing water… Read More
Why preserve it, why protect it, why even care about it?… Read More
Is there a way to gauge it?… Read More
We never really used a lot of energy on that. We probably should have, but we didn’t to be honest with you. Read More
We felt like, my bottom line from the day one from when I started there and when I was even at the national park as a ranger was if the visitor left with the reality of nothing more than, “Oh my gosh, there really is stuff on a desert,” then… Read More
As you were building, you added an endangered species of a gazelle, you added a picnic area, children’s play park, what was the idea about these additions?… Read More
Again, a reason to, is the community grew up around us. Now, all of a sudden we had kids and we had schools because my first community was wealthy people in country clubs who had second homes. That was the community in the ’70s and ’80s, and then the school… Read More
Absolutely. Read More
How effective do you think the exhibits have been in raising public awareness about endangered species?… Read More
Was there anything special about that birth?… Read More
Not that, I mean, we had several born over the years. We had a very tough male zebra called Fenton who was an animal not to be reckoned with, but. Read More
What does tough mean?… Read More